On Apr 19, 7:27 pm, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps a bit off topic, but is there any possibility of Sage ever being > ported to Windows natively, i.e. without cygwin dependencies? We have a > couple thousand lines worth of shell scripts currently underpinning Sage, > and we'd probably have to convert those to Python or something to make them > portable to Windows, right?
Shell scripts aren't a problem, as there is a native port of bash to Win32... even porting GAP alone to native Windows has not been done... (it's doable, but very unpleasant) Similar tasks for Singular, Maxima, etc etc... > Does anyone know what benefits we would gain > from not using cygwin? > > -Keshav > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- 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
