On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:33 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:

> Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>
>> On 04/20/2013 12:14 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>
>>> Le 20/04/2013 10:29, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I propose to complete remove the page
>>>> http://www.sagemath.org/**download-solaris.html<http://www.sagemath.org/download-solaris.html>
>>>> since one might conclude that Sage versions laters than Sage 4.7 don't
>>>> support Solaris, which is completely false.
>>>>
>>>> What is true is that there are no *binaries* made for Solaris. Given the
>>>> small number of Solaris users and given the slowness of our Solaris
>>>> machine, I see not much point in making such binaries.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How slow do you mean? It takes me two days to build a bdist for sage...
>>>
>> That's pretty slow, isn't it? Perhaps the Skynet machine can do it in
>> one day, but still, I doubt the usefulness.
>>
>
> People promised a couple of times (last time early this year IIRC) that t2
> (i.e., a SPARC) will come back...
>
>
t2 will definitely *not* be coming back.


> For x86[_64], we may ask Dave whether he would want us to build binaries
> on hawk.
>
>
> -leif
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