On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, mabshoff 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 :) > As a Gentoo-er myself I think a subset of portage would be very nice to do the spkg job. It is in python, after all, which as we know is cross-platform. You also may not be aware but their is an effort dubbed Gentoo prefix to make it work on other platform than linux, even windows may be. freeBSD is quite advanced, I believe their is an effort on opensolaris (if it hasn't died) and there is definitely some effort to work with OS X. Of course as I said at the beginning, sage probably only needs a subset of portage it doesn't use flags for example.
Anyway that would be a major overhaul of the sage structure so it is very unlikely to happen :) Francois --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
