On Jan 8, 10:40 pm, Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetil1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:59, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> no, it doesn't give you *any* reasonable figures, at all! > >> In fact, I am sure lots of people (a vast majority) are running Cygwin > >> (or Mingw - a clone of Cygwin) apps on their Windows boxes without > >> even realising this. Cygwin works quietly behind the scenes here. > > > That is very interesting. When you say "a vast majority", can you > > give an example of a specific application people are using? > > One example I know about: R for windows is compiled using mingwin, but > can be used > without having mingwin installed. (It installs cygwin1.dll or > something, b ut most people know nothing about that). > Most people could care less about which compiler is used to compile > the program they use!
exactly my point. Another application that used Mingw I know is wxDev-C++, a GPLed Windows IDE for C/C++ development, very popular among beginner Windows programmers. HTH, Dmitrii > > Kjetil > > That > > > > > could be good to know about. > > > Also, from earlier in the discussion it sounded like it was possible > > to make Sage-Cygwin be a one-step download, e.g. > > > 1. Download sage-cygwin.msi > > 2. Double click and click through an install process > > 3. Click the icon for sage-cygwin and begin using Sage > > > If that is possible, that would be fantastic. Up to now my > > understanding was that one first had to download Cygwin and install/ > > configure it, then download the Sage install and hope that it > > cooperated with Cygwin on one's computer. > > > - kcrisman > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > "... an entire human genome would fit on a music CD." > > ---www.thinkgene.com
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