Regarding GSoC, goals include 1. Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette) * * from http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#goals
I think that making free / open source code work on Windows is in this category. While it is hard to count how many people are using free software by looking at (say) sourceforge statistics --- some people get secondary distributions -- for packages of Maxima, the vast majority of direct downloads, at least, are for Windows. I suppose every person who downloads Sage also downloads Maxima, and those are not counted by sourceforge (or am I mistaken??) Sage architects seem to believe it epitomizes a high level of software engineering. Yet it cannot be run natively on the (still) most highly available platform. I think that for a student it would be a very thorough exposure to real-world scenarios. I think it would be quite painful since, I suspect, Sage has no suitable mentor. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
