On Jul 19, 2:45 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 18 Jul, 20:33, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<SNIP>
> 12) Once a Solaris port is done, try to get Blastwave and Sunfreeware
> to keep packages. I'm not sure if Blastware will, as I think they want
> Solaris 8 packages. But I guess if it does not run on Solaris 8, they
> might accept it.
There is no way I personally will spend any time at all on Solaris 8,
but I will certainly accept patches. I am willing to do Solaris 9 on
Sparc, but Solaris 9 on x86[-x64] is likely not going to happen
either, while the same thing about patches applies. I am much more
interested in the future Solaris 11/Express Edition. Various people
have told me that many installs either stuck with Solaris 8 or went to
Solaris 10, i.e. not many installs stuck with Solaris 9. Since I am
getting paid to support Solaris 10 and Express (and I guess 11 once it
is out) that is where my energy will go. In the end I believe that our
own repo will always be more current and I have no interest in
breaking Sage up into packages. I am willing to help if other people
want to attempt that for Solaris.
> You might get some problems getting Sunfreewave to
> have a package, as the owner of that site (Steve Christensen) works
> for Wolfram Research, produces his own Mathematica addon and moderates
> comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica. I suspect, given he does not allow
> other software to be discussed on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica, he
> might be reluctant to produce a package for Sage. But you can only
> ask.
Well, let's hope for the best and assume that he will be a good guy
about this unless there is evidence against him. I see no reason why
his duties in the newsgroups should interfere with "Sunfreeware hat".
> Sticking 'solaris software' into google I findwww.sunfrerware.comis
> the top hit - more thanwww.sun.com!! At number 4
> ishttp://www.solaris4you.dk/sunsolaris.htmlwhich is a list of free
> solaris software.
Sure, sounds like a good plan to me.
> Anyway, perhaps there are some ideas for ways to improve the number of
> visitors to the site.
>
> Dave
Cheers,
Michael
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