First of all, its the Google summer of code and not the Microsoft summer of code ;-)
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:07:22 PM UTC+1, rjf wrote: > 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. That is because everyone but Microsoft has solved the problem of package management. Every linux distribution lets you install maxima with a one-liner, cryptographic chain of trust to the packager included. Maxima for windows still requires you to download an executable file from the internet with a web browser. Your download statistics is for users without package management. > 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. > Or as I call it, the most quickly declining platform. You would do a disservice to students to teach them today about platforms that will clearly be obsolete by the time they will enter the workforce. -- 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.
