On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Kevin Horton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I only need a small subset of Sage's capabilities, and one of the > computers I want to use it on has significant hard drive space > issues. As near as I can tell, the parts of Sage I need are scipy, > numpy, matplotlib, the notebook, plus a bunch of the custom high level > functions that sage provides (e.g. find_fit).
Except find_fit, as Mike mentioned, all other things should just work. > > Is SPD ready for end users with these needs, or should I give it some > more time to percolate first? If it matters, I'd be installing it on > the following machines: There are some issues, that we are aware of: http://code.google.com/p/spdproject/issues/list so it's still beta, but it should build and the notebook mostly works, except to some glitches like: http://code.google.com/p/spdproject/issues/detail?id=8 Please report all bugs and ideas for improvements if you try it. > > Intel iMac, running OS X 10.5, > Ubuntu 8.10 Server virtual machine, running on Intel iMac (for > external access, without risking the rest of the computer), > PPC PowerBook, running OS X 10.5, and > EeePC 901, running Xandros, with 16 GB storage (hence the desire for a > small footprint) That should work. It builds in about 8 minutes on my laptop and needs about 300MB of free space. > > How long after the release of Sage 4.0.0 before I should expect to see > an SPD based on Sage 4.0.0? As soon as I or someone else gets to it. But SPD will only benefit from the core packages. Sage itself depends on lots of other stuff, that is not in SPD. > > What is the preferred channel for the inevitable SPD questions? spd- > dev list? Sage-support list? I am on both lists, but I think it's better to use spd-dev list so that sage-devel is not poluted with non Sage stuff. So to sum up, it's still beta, but it's usable already and I hope to polish all the other show stopper bugs real soon, as I need it to be production ready now. Just grab the tarball and follow the instructions on the front page and report all bugs. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
