> Is that September 2009? If we do not have something native on Windows > then we are in deep trouble.
The technical discussion above was very interesting, as I know little about Windows internals, and it sounds like tons of good work is going on with supporting so many architectures. I probably should have asked a less cryptic question, though, so I am sorry - here is the real one: Will there be a sage.exe file (or something like that) that my students can download straight from sagemath.org and use right away on a Windows machine? This would be similar to the .app solution that now exists for Mac (see #4817, the resolution of which would make 3.3 even more spectacular than it already is). I can't overemphasize how much this could transform the (silent) user base of Sage. Re: Cygwin, I can convince a few hard-core students to download VMWare +VMWare Sage image, but those are the same ones I can convince to try using LaTeX for their homework ;) It seems like Cygwin might be about the same difficulty level for them as VMWare - i.e., not too hard but just inconvenient enough to discourage most students. Or is Cygwin easier than VMWare? I assume it at least doesn't have the downside of only having available whatever virtual memory is allocated. - kcrisman --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
