On 26 Mai, 19:39, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 26 Mai, 19:23, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > > > On 26 Mai, 03:38, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Mike Hansen <mhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Hello, > > > >> > I propose to make Cephes (http://moshier.net/and > > >> >http://www.netlib.org/cephes/) a standard SPKG in Sage. In order to > > >> > complete the Cygwin port on Windows, we need support for c99 complex > > >> > numbers which the SPKG provides (amongst other things). The SPKG can > > >> > be found at #8780. The spkg will not install anything except under > > >> > Cygwin. > > > > I think it would make more sense to include Cephes in Cygwin, with > > > your patches. > > > >> I vote > > > >> [ X ] Yes! > > > > <flame> I want additional 2,4 MB in the Sage source distribution that > > > are only needed on !"#$%& (which already requires further > > > prerequisites, currently not included in Sage). </flame> > > > >> [ ] No, I don't want Sage to work on Windows. > > > > There are other alternatives. > > > Such as? > > * As I said above, incorporate it into Cygwin. > > * Provide an optional spkg. > > * Provide (it with) Cygwin or a "patch" to Cygwin. > > * Run Sage in VirtualBox on Windows. > > * Use the Sage notebook interface in Windows, the server running on a > proper operating system ;-)
Oh, and of course: * Convince Microsoft to fund a native port of Sage and all its included packages. * Convince Microsoft to change their APIs. -Leif -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
