The link to the windows binary seems light (64MB); which parts of sage are included in it?
didier On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Sage Devels, etc. > > I am getting very impatient about how slowly work on the Microsoft > Windows Sage Project has been moving. Thus I've started a new project > to really move this forward and actually get something done. I just > put a day's work into it: > > http://windows.sagemath.org/ > > The goal is to make a first full stable useful release by May 22, 2009 > at Sage Days 15. > > If you are interested in helping, see the web page, download the > newest zip file and start hacking. If you have something useful to > say, respond to this email and join the sage-windows mailing list. > > You will need Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, but they have a free > 90-day trial here, and May 22, 2009 is about 90 days away: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx > > I've done all my work on this so far using Windows XP installed into a > VMware virtual machine on my OS X box. > > FAQ: > > 1. Is the "Windows Sage" project a bit different from the usual Sage? > > Yes. It is not a requirement that this be a direct port with > identical functionality to OS X / Linux / Solaris Sage. The > requirement is that it be useful and provide a valuable service to the > community. Pulling this off may require some refactoring of the Sage > library (especially the notebook and interfaces). > > 2. Will GPL3 be allowed in "Unix Sage" but stripped out of "Windows Sage"? > > GPL3 components will *also* be allowed in Windows Sage. The only > requirement is that there will be a supported *version* of Sage that > includes no (L)GPL3 components. > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
