On 3 Aug, 20:17, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > 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
Perhaps install Cygwin on Windows box along with openssh package. Then run the sshd-config script (from memory - so please check). Also http://www.rdesktop.org/ might allow you to connect to the virtual server using RDP. A bit like VNC. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
