Currently, windows porting efforts are focusing on porting to Cygwin. One of the targets for the Sage-5.0 release is a successful port to Cygwin. Here is a page with some good info:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort I am not involved in the project myself. Someone else with more knowledge should fill in. -- Kelvin On Apr 14, 12:29 pm, Alexandre Blondin Massé <alexandre.blondin.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all! > > I know this is a recurrent subject, but I was wondering what was the > status about the Windows port. As many other users/developers of Sage, > I promote it the most I can but one obstacle that keeps showing up is > that it does not work natively on Windows. I know that there is the > VMWare solution, the Notebook server and all, but for some people, it > is unfortunately not good enough. > > 1. What remains to be done? > 2. Who is working actively/partially actively on the project? > 3. What human ressource is needed? What profile should people working > on it have? > 4. Assuming that the appropriate people work on the project, is there > a timeline of what could be expected and when? > > (I'm sure I forget important questions, so anyone feel free to add > one!) > > Sorry for bugging you all with that again and thank you in advance for > the answers. > > Alexandre > > P.S. One reason I ask is that after discussing with Franco Saliola and > Sébastien Labbé, we thought it could be a good idea to hire someone > this summer at UQAM to work on the project, but maybe it is not > realistic. For instance, would it be doable for an undergraduate > student in computer science? -- 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
