On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM, bsdz<blai...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > 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).
I've done this and it works well for using cygwin. But sage-windows isn't in Cygwin, so I'm not sure if it helps. I'm surprised by how bad you say VirtualBox support for Windows is. Using Windows via Parallels or VMware (which I've done) is pretty nice -- cut and paste, networking, etc., all typically works perfectly. Incidentally, I was literally about to install Windows Vista on Virtual Box, since I've been using Linux on Virtual Box (on my mac) lately and really like it. I hope my experience isn't as bad as for you. > Also http://www.rdesktop.org/ might allow you to connect to the > virtual server using RDP. A bit like VNC. > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
