On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:07 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, what is the state of the windows port of Sage --- will it be >> possible to just maintain one spkg and it would build on windows, or >> will it be necessary to maintain one spkg for linux/mac and another >> one for windows? > > At present the Windows port spkg's are completely different than on Linux/mac. > Obviously that's not what we want in the long run. However, things > are *very* different in Windows land than UNIX land, and something > that works under UNIX isn't going to "just work" under native Windows. Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately I can't help with the windows port in the next couple weeks. My biggest problem is that if I want to try something on windows, I need to bootup my virtualbox with windows 7, then the net connection usually doesn't work, so I need to restart windows and it just takes too much time. On mac, I just log to bsd.math and quickly port/try/test something, it only takes a minute. Another problem is that I am very slow doing any changes in the windows terminal, I can't easily copy things in and out of the virtualbox etc. Is there some way to install openssh into windows, so that I can leave it running on my workstation somewhere and just use my terminal + ssh to log into there and port to windows using this approach? That would make me way more effective and I could help more with the porting and testing my code in windows. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
