Naturally this was an April Fools joke. Of course Windows support, including MSVC support for MPIR will continue for the foreseeable future!
Bill. On 1 April 2014 01:29, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
