I would expect significant pushback from the Gentoo people
on the issue of including other projects inside Sage. GCL
packaged gmp4 (now fixed) and their response was that this
should not be part of GCL. I'm not sure if independently
available projects (e.g. ECL, Maxima, etc) would fit the
compile-from-source Gentoo model. Certainly the packaging
of OSX binaries for Fortran will raise a few eyebrows.
Tim Daly
On 10/27/2010 3:38 PM, François Bissey wrote:
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
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