On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: >> >> >> On Feb 15, 6:31 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Feb 15, 7:22 pm, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > > 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. >>> >>> Then you haven't tried to actually do this, which of course we know. >>> Unfortunately, even getting Maxima to work right on Cygwin with ECL >> >> ... maybe because running ECL is the wrong choice, dictated by a >> misguided policy about what software is politically acceptable. >> >>> was nontrivial lately because of how Juanjo had to do forking (which >>> he's since gotten around entirely) which does not work on Cygwin >>> properly. (And I say this out of sheer experience trying to get it to >>> work, not because I know anything about forking. Those who do are >>> even more emphatic about it.) >>> >>> > 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 $2,000. > > By far the quickest way to make Sage run on Windows is to get an expert > to fix Cygwin's fork implementation. > > The problem is that while such persons exist, they all have > signed an NDA, which would prevent them to do what's needed.
Why do you think it's *possible* to have a good fork implementation in Cygwin? I had the impression that it is impossible. Also, there is much, much more wrong with Cygwin than just fork... > > Anything esle is a huge waste of man-hours. > (of course this makes your 500$/h experts in wheel reinvention > laughing all the way to the bank...) > > Frankly, that's disturbing, isn't it? > > Dima > > -- > 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 -- 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
