On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:38 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 22 June 2010 11:19, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: >>> On 06/22/10 10:10 AM, François Bissey wrote: >>> >> Someone commented the other day that he could not understand why BLAS >>> >> was in Sage when we had ATLAS. This was in response to my concern >>> >> about linbox not being able to find BLAS >>> > >>> > That was me. For info sage-on-gentoo only uses ATLAS without any issues. >>> > I believe the blas spkg only ship libblas.a all the functionality of >>> > which should be in libf77blas.a shipped by ATLAS. >>> > >>> > Francois >>> >>> Thank you. It sounds then that BLAS can probably be removed from Sage, >>> which will be a good thing. It saves a bit of disk space, saves time >>> compiling it, and since it is not even tested, is would remove one >>> uncertainty. >>> >>> I noticed linbox complains it could not find the C interface to BLAS >>> >>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9101 >>> >>> Given it is all written in Fortran, that does not totally surprise me. >>> >> >> Yes that would be libcblas and indeed that's not provided by BLAS. >> >>> I'll try to rebuild Sage on OpenSolaris without BLAS and see if Linbox will >>> work with the ATLAS package instead. But even if it does not, it sounds as >>> though BLAS can be removed, since you are not using it on Gentoo. >>> >>> I guess with a project like Sage, it is very easy to collect baggage over >>> the years. I wonder if there are any more unnecessary standard packages? >>> Are you aware of any that you do not use on Gentoo, but which are in Sage? >>> >> >> After a small check the only two things that seem relevant are: > > Thank you for checking. > >> * termcap - which may be useful for cygwin - ncurse provide an emulation >> of it and is usually installed on unix like Oses. I should make sure whether >> it is really necessary. >> * ghmm is still in sage-4.4.3 and it is still built while its functionality >> has been superceded inside sage and it is no longer necessary. >> >> Francois > > Getting rid of ghmm would be good for three reasons:
Definitely ghmm should be deleted. I'll take over the release of sage-4.4.4 from Mike Hansen, and delete ghmm. Done. I'm currently waiting on several builds of sage-4.4.4 to finish testing. Then sage-4.4.4 will be released. -- William -- William Stein 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
