William Stein wrote: >> But that is very different from a native Windows port, which was I thought we >> were talking about. > > We are talking about porting Sage to windows. I will leave it to the > lawyers to define "native Windows port".
Fair enough. > I strongly disagree with your assertion that Cygwin would be vastly > inferior to VirtualBox for Windows users. How much have you used > VirtualBox or Cygwin? I've used both for hundreds of hours, and I've > also listened to and watched tons of Windows users. Sage built > using Cygwin would be vastly better for most Windows users than > VirtualBox. > > -- William I've not used either very much, but of the two, I much prefer VirtualBox. Personally I was never over impressed with Cygwin, but I find Virtualbox very impressive. FWIW, a Google on Cywin brings up 4.8 million hits. On VirtualBox 4.2 million hits. Considering Cywin was released in 1995 and VirtualBox in 2007, it would suggest to me its a more popular tool today. dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org