> IMHO, a native port of Sage to Windows could not be done in a week or two. > Perhaps a Cygwin port could, but I'm talking of a native port, where the > code runs directly on Windows, without any Linux virtual machines, > emulators or similar.
I see no reason to reject MinGW, Cygwin, or other libraries as part of a Sage system on Windows. > > If you wish, I'll offer you a 20:1 bet.. If you, or someone you know, can > get a full port of Sage done inside a month, I'll pay you $2000. I think that a month (160 hours X expert rate of, say, $500/hour) would do it. That is far more than $2,000. There may also be some stupid-ass code in some of the random facilities in Sage that would have to be either understood or written around because the writer essentially dared anyone to do (whatever) without Unix. A dumb move, but not impossible. In any case, I'm not a betting man, other than retirement funds.. On the > other hand, it you can't provide a full port, you pay me $100. William can > be the judge of whether the resulting code is a complete native port of > Sage to Windows. Let me know if you want that bet. Hm, that sounds like an unbiased judge. :) > > PS. It's interesting that Wolfram Research appear to use ATLAS in > Mathematica - at least on Solaris. I base this on the fact there is a file > 'libatlas.so', or some similar name in the Mathematica distribution. I > personally think ATLAS would be one of the more difficult programs to port > to Windows. I've often pondered if Wolfram Research have ported ATLAS to > Windows, or if they use a different library on Windows. The latter would > seem odd (why maintain two lots of code base?), so it suggests to me they > have probably ported ATLAS to Windows. But that would seem very hard - to > do it properly anyway. > > Dave -- 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
