On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:51 PM, memilanuk <memila...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Another vote here for getting an old and/or broken version *out* of > Debian unstable/experimental. Seems kind of ridiculous to have a > version that old in what is commonly viewed as the 'cutting edge' > branch. > > Just tossing out ideas here... if its too much of a PITA to keep sage > meshed with the politics and policies of Debian, which in turn affects
It's not clear if it is PITA or not. As far as I can tell, nobody lifted a finger to work on the Debian/Ubuntu packaging of Sage during the last 6 months (or more). Nobody is working on it. > Ubuntu... would it be possible or feasible to distribute sage for > linux as a virtual box image, similar to what is done for Windows, so > it can run independently of the system libraries and such? Granted it > is even more of a pig of a download, but it might side-step some other > issues in the mean time... and people wanting a more light-weight > version can still compile and install locally. One can already use the Sage VirtualBox binary (that we already distribute "for windows") on Linux, OS X, and Solaris (x86), if one wants to. -- William > > Just a thought... > > Monte > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
