On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:59 AM, 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? 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.
Indeed 1-3 steps are possible -- in fact, they *were* the standard way to run Sage on Windows from 2005 to 2006. William
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