Hi all, By now everyone will have heard about Canonical's new product, called Youbetcha, which claims to offer native support for Linux applications in Windows *at native speed*.
I wish this had come along earlier, since even yesterday (Monday), I was spitting chips at the 45 minutes it takes just to run autotools configure in MinGW, MinGW64, Cygwin or Cygwin64. Well, I've just tried out Youbetcha (see http://www.ubuntu.com/) and it really works flawlessly! It took about 45 minutes to install, but now MPIR works out-of-the box on my HP laptop and builds in 30s on 4 cores instead of 1.5 hours using any of the above. Therefore, let me be the first to announce that MPIR and flint will be dropping support for Windows as of today (1/4). We recommend Windows users download Youbetcha for themselves and install it at the first opportunity. Bill. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
