On Mar 6, 2010, at 3:51 PM, memilanuk 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
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.
As William mentioned, the "Windows" VM works fine under other
platforms as well. In fact, the notebook itself is served out of a VM
running on Linux, and we do much of our testing in such VMs as well.
However, the reason Sage can't be just dropped into a a Debian package
is because it already runs independently of the system libraries. (We
ship and build our own Python, zlib, blas, gmp, etc.) About the only
thing the binaries depend on is the System's clib, stdc++, and fortran
(and it's even been suggested to ship those as well, though the
general consensus is that's not a good idea).
- Robert
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