On Dec 29, 2007 8:04 AM, François Bissey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 :)
Disclaimer: I am a Debian user, on the way of becoming a Debian Developer I agree with Michael, to keep it simple stupid, as it is now. Maybe with my a simple improvements I suggested here: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/6b9684488a62644a/ Nice thing about this is that there is no database, nothing. Just plain files, that can be fixed by hand. How would portage improve this? Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
