On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:36 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Yeah, that's what I thought. But maybe I can at least use it to test the spkg packages. Maybe not, I don't know. > > 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. Try it, it's not that bad. The network works for me in about 50% of cases, etc. It could be a bug in Windows 7, that I use, I don't know. But it's not as fast as just sshing into some box. So I want to figure it out somehow. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
