On Dec 29, 4:52 am, "Ted Kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William wrote:
> > What should we do? Any ideas? People who work on Linux distributions,
> > please speak up, except for saying "don't bother with Sage, we already
> > package everything above in Debian"
>
> Since Gentoo is a meta Linux distribution (a distribution which is
> designed to build custom distributions) it contains the tools needed
> to automate package management and creation including: source code
> fetching, patching, dependencies, compiler configuration, package
> maintainer coordination, etc. It also has tools which automatically
> create CD and DVD images.
>
> It might be less effort overall to construct SAGE's package creation
> system and overall build system on top of something like Gentoo than
> to do it manually and coordinate everything with trac/wiki.
Well, if we were to limit ourselves to Linux systems that might be an
option, but with the need to support OSX and Solaris [and in the
futute Windows] I don't see this as something viable. Portage is nice,
but it is the wrong tool for a cross platform toolchain. What we
currently have is very KISS, and KISS works :)
> Ted
Cheers,
Michael
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