On 10/26/10 06:36 PM, William Stein wrote:
I oscillate in my hopes about cygwin... There are other approaches to
Sage on Windows, e.g.,:
http://windows.sagemath.org/
Is the Cygwin problem just that nobody is working on it, or are there
fundamental reasons why it is causing a problem. 6-12 months ago you told me if
you and Mike worked at it for a few weeks you could do it.
You have a list of tickets that need solving at
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort
I've made comments on several of them, but nobody has replied.
One ticket has a patch that has been awaiting review for months. It just seems
like nobody is working on it any more.
Perhaps you should have finished the Cygwin port before starting PSage, though I
can see why the latter is more attractive to you. However, in the long run,
getting the Cygwin port finished might attract more research mathematicians
which is who PSage is aimed at. So finishing the Cygwin port might ultimately
get you PSage developed more quickly.
I personally don't see why the Cygwin port should be so hard. From what I
understand, there are only a dozen or so doctest issues to resolve.
BTW, would it not be better to delete this page? I found it while Googling
http://wiki.sagemath.org/windows/cygwin-issues
it seems rather out of date.
Dave
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