On Feb 1, 3:41 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 01/30/11 03:27 PM, Jonathan wrote: > Put another way, there should be a discussion about what Sage needs, how > urgent > it is, and a plan drawn up. > > I thought porting Sage to Windows via Cygwin was seen as important, as it will > dramatically increase the number of users. But this seems to have stalled. > > 2.5 years ago (June 2008 to be precise), Mike Hansen said "The first step > which > should be done within a few weeks is to get a Cygwin version of Sage for > Windows." > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/80cd1f... > > It was several months ago William said it would not take a lot of work if him > and Mike worked on it. IIRC, it would a couple of weeks of work. That was > before > William start Psage, which seemed to be quite badly timed given the Cygwin > port > status. > > This Cygwin related page: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6743 > > has not been updated for a year, and another one: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort > > has not been updated for 4 months.
> I would like to introduce someone to Sage, but I'm wasting my time if she > needs > to learn Linux, Solaris, or buy a Mac first. So I'm suggesting she use > Mathematica on Windows. As much as I don't like that idea, I don't feel able > to > recommend Sage. If there was a Windows port, then I might change my mind. +1 to this For me, not having sage running on windows is a show-stopper. While I use Sage daily on my research I decided that I could not use sage on my classes for freshmen students until it works on windows. -- 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
