On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 27, 11:16 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:52 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> The Sage packages that directly depend on Fortran are: R, f2c, >> >> lapack, blas, numpy, scipy, cvxopt: >> >> >> Note that numpy can be built and used *without* fortran, e.g., when I >> >> removed fortran from psage I kept numpy... >> >> > So a non-Fortran Sage would lose a lot of numerical ability (mpmath >> > would stay, but it looks like GSL depends on blas/atlas/something with >> > Fortran) >> >> numpy and GSL *BOTH* stay. The entire point of GSL is that it is >> numerical code written in C instead of Fortran. > > Okay - the website seemed to indicate dependence on various things > that have fortran, but it did say "weak" dependence so maybe the core > functionality doesn't need that? "GSL requires a BLAS library for > vector and matrix operations" but maybe that doesn't have to be > fortran, or maybe that's irrelevant to the main numerical stuff one > would care about. Thanks for clarifying that, anyway. > >> In fact, GSL is in psage. You might even try downloading and >> building the latest version of psage: >> >> http://purple.sagemath.org/source/?C=N;O=D >> > > Not a bad idea, of course - I'll try this on my Tiger PPC Mac tomorrow > to make sure it works fine :) though it certainly should.
It probably will, since it's basically just sage. That said, I list the sorted platforms at http://purple.sagemath.org/ as "Supported platforms: 64-bit Ubuntu Linux and OS X 10.6" -- William > > - kcrisman > > -- > 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 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
