On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:47 PM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote: > >>I haven't tested it, ... Why is it suboptimal? > > I used the word "suboptimal" to reffer to the virtualbox based > solution, not to the cygwin one. > > If by "native" you mean "without cygwin"... i am afraid that that we > would be very far away from that. Not only from the sage side (at the > end of the day, most of the code writen by sage devs is portable > python/cython), but from the thirthd party pieces: Singular is not > natively ported to windows (runs under cygwin), GAP for windows uses > cygwin too, Pari/gp also runs under cygwin (and has limitations > compared to the linux version)... > > So the native windows port of sage is really unlikely to happen in the > mid term. Considering that, Sage releases official versions that work > under windows (via virtualbox), and also a cygwin port is being worked > on (although it is true that, with the virtual machine available, this > has become a secondary effort). > > And since you mention the one-click installer... that was pretty much > what the GUI project that we suggested was about. As i said, no > student showed interest in working on that. As i said, the statement > that the sage project is turning its back on windows system is far > from being true.
One tidbit to add to this discussion (which has gone on way too long), is that in my experience often compute intensive functions in Sage are faster on Windows when run on a VM than when run under Cygwin or natively. There are many reasons for this, including LInux's excellent memory management, special optimizations people writing code make for the Linux version of some code, but don't make anywhere else, etc. -- William > > -- > 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. > > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
