> On Nov 5, 2011, at 18:02 , Burcin Erocal wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 17:23:38 -0700 (PDT) > > > > leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > >> On 5 Nov., 21:24, "Justin C. Walker" <jus...@mac.com> wrote: > >>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 12:16 , Julien Puydt wrote: > >>>> Le 05/11/2011 17:42, William Stein a écrit : > >>>>> What do you base this "probably" on? Having started and watched > >>>>> Sage "evolve" of over 6 years, if anything it is not evolving in > >>>>> the direction you suggest. > >>>> > >>>> Fair point. But that can't last. > > [snip] > > >> As discussed elsewhere, a first step would be to split off the Sage- > >> specific parts of spkgs from the upstream tarball / source tree. We'd > >> also need better dependencies, with version number matching, a > >> distinction between build and runtime requirements, etc. pp., i.e. > >> modular, formal package metadata (which could include our current > >> build scripts, although they'd also better be split into pieces, with > >> a lot factored out). > > > > Most of this has already been done by the sage-on-gentoo project. Using > > gentoo-prefix, it is even possible to install it on different operating > > systems. I've been working on making a sage like distribution by > > > merging these two. The repository is here: > In practice, how is this working? Has it been in general use? Has it been > used across multiple major releases of Gentoo? > Hi Justin,
The question about major releases of Gentoo is non-sensical. Gentoo is a rolling distro - not quite as arch but similar. There were releases in the past but they really referred to an install media done at a particular point in time. Booststrapping the prefix is the hard part. Without entering in the details, sage-on-gentoo works quite nicely on Gentoo. It has been tested on a variety on linux distro inside a prefix on x86_64 and x86. Steve Trogdon has an impressive collection of installations on a wide variety of hosts from debian to an ancient rhel-4 (IIRC). With Georg S. Webber I got a successful install on OS X (I have 10.5 Georg has 10.5 and 10.6 covered, we haven't talked about 10.7 but the prefix bootstrap there). Because of a lack of man power we don't do other prefix targets. Windows would be nice. Technically I have the parts for trying AIX6.1. Sage-on-prefix as started by Burcin is lagging behind a little bit because it is very hard to restrict yourself to a minimal subset without losing the benefits from a Gentoo upstream. Francois sage-on-gentoo team veteran This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information. -- 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
