On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:21 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> On 7 April 2011 02:52, Felix Lawrence <fe...@physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote: >>> For many people, this would make Sage no longer free - it would >>> effectively cost $5 and none of that money goes to Sage. >> >> Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. We can give them a Sage binary. >> >> They can I assume download a binary for gcc and put that on their Mac >> can they not? I know in the case of AIX and HP-UX, one can get binary >> versions of gcc from various sources. > > In order to use Cython on OS X, one currently needs XCode. Cython is > a really core feature of Sage. > E.g., I talk about it a lot in my Sage course for undergrads [1], and
Where [1] is [1] http://wiki.wstein.org/11/480a > on Wednesday I had some very confused > students in class that couldn't get Cython to work on their own > computers (running OS X)... since as it turned out > they didn't have XCode installed. I wonder if the error message > when trying to use %cython mode in the notebook on OS X could be > improved... > > I personally do almost no serious work with Sage that doesn't involve Cython. > > -- William > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
