Michael wrote: > 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 :)
My understanding is that Portage can be used with OSX and Solaris: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ What came to mind was to subset the Portage tree to make a "Sage tree" which only contains the software that Sage actually needs and then to copy and extend the Gentoo tools (which are mostly written in python) to serve the needs of Sage. Anyway, this seemed like an interesting possibility to explore if it was desired to automate the Sage build process at some point. Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
