> On 10/27/10 04:26 PM, mmarco wrote: > > A few words about the gentoo platform. > > > > Since gentoo does not follow the usual system of versions, but is > > based on continuous incremental upgrades, there is no way to ensure > > that sage binaries would work on a given gentoo box. As far as i know, > > the usual binaries available for other platform don't run over gentoo. > > Although in all the cases i have tried, i was able to build sage from > > source. > > > > I think it would be a good idea to change the sentence "Gentoo > > binaries are regularly available at ???" by a note with a link to the > > sage-on-gentoo project. > > What's the best URL to use? I found > > http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo > > but is that the most suitable? > > I guess since Gentoo uses a different system, it's not exactly comparable > to any Sage build. > > There's a few bits I'm lacking on that page, but I think it's a big > improvement over the previous system, where there were several different > references to supported platforms, no two of which agreed with each other. > I should pipe in since we are talking about that. Generally speaking sage should work on a reasonably up to date stable Gentoo system. However it would be a good thing to point user to sage-on-gentoo as it is aimed at properly integrating to their system. Eventually we plan to make sage available directly from the main Gentoo tree like any other package. we may keep the overlay around for alpha/experimental stuff.
The caveats are as follow. The sage-on-gentoo project is focused on the end user. That is someone gets sage from it and starts working. It is not meant as a development platform - unless you know how to write ebuilds for Gentoo. If you want to get new code in sage it may be best to get the tarball. Francois -- 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
