Perhaps even farther off topic; I doubt that Cygwin (Cygwin/X) is in any case a good path for many/ most MS_Windows folk - from THEIR point of view. The path to getting Cygwin/X up and running "usefully" on a MS_Windows platform is long and arduous for the naive user, e.g. it was so for me.
Oracle (Sun) VM_VirtualBox installs as a MS_Windows program. It is "culturally compatible" with everything the user is used to. The learning curve to then install a standard Linux distro, e.g. Ubuntu or Debian, then Sage within that is quite trivial. VMware is another possibility, although I think that isn't "free". For Sage to be adopted WIDELY by windows users the path to getting it up and running needs to be simple and reasonably quick. Cygwin /X does not (yet) offer that. For my very simple needs/wants there has not been a performance issue with Vista->VirtualBox->Debian->Sage, although it would seem that Vista->Cygwin/X->Sage may perform better simply by having one fewer layers - Yes/No ? On Apr 19, 7:27 am, 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? 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
