On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 6:21 PM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > Erik Bray wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Vincent Delecroix >> <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 26/07/16 07:52, Volker Braun wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 1:25:34 PM UTC+2, Erik Bray wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2) Currently this feature is intended as a developer tool only; >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On the plus side every user who is interested in Sage will immensely >>>> benefit from the scientific software universe that opens up by installing >>>> the ubuntu-on-windows layer. As long as Microsoft keeps supporting it I'd >>>> say that solution is even superior to a native windows app. >>>> >>> >>> <not a troll> >>> The real solution is of course to install a Unix environment and delete >>> windows forever. As long as Microsoft supports it. >>> </not a troll> >> >> OS bashing will not be tolerated. > > But company bashing will... ;-)
That's not really okay either--constructive criticisms are fine but you never know where your next funding source will come from... > Microsoft used to have a POSIX layer also; no idea what happened to that > (and how usable it actually was/is). > > But it never made it into mainstream Windows AFAIK. Yep. My understanding is that the current WSL did in fact grow out of that but it had been left undocumented and deteriorating for a long time. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.