On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > 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.
That would be far too hard to maintain. It's much better to go with Cygwin as the platform for Sage. William -- 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
