On 02/ 9/11 07:21 AM, Emil Widmann wrote:
Is by "Sage-Windows port" meaning a "native" Windows application rather than
something based on Cygwin?
With Sage - Windows port I was meant the Cygwin port. Or at least any
port that is very easy to install (Windows Installer) and runs with
comparable performance to a Cygwin version inside the usual Windows
environment (no dual boot system, no virtual machine).
In that case, I don't think there can be any argument that doing this should be
a Sage goal. If we don't get such a port complete, we are losing a lot of
potential users.
We also really need a plan of how we might achieve this goal. I'm willing to
work on this as soon as Sage runs well on Solaris/OpenSolaris as 64-bit -
currently it is only running 32-bit.
I've not been very active on Sage recently - my Dad has been ill, then died in
the middle of January. He was cremated on Monday, so I have had other things on
my mind and also need to sort out his estate. So Sage has to take a back-seat
just now.
Looking at some of the outstanding Cygin tickets
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort
they are very trivial to solve. For example
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9172
I've just posted a solution to #9172, though I've not created a patch.
Also #9170 looks highly likely to be easily solved.
#9165 (lcalc) is a bit more worrying, as I know the Sun compiler will not
compile lcalc and gcc gives compiler warnings when compiling lcalc. The fact it
gives errors on Cygwin does not totally surprise me.
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