mabshoff wrote: > > > > On Jan 5, 12:57 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> I'm interested in packaging sage for fedora. > > Ok, we have a google group debian-sage that despite its name might be > a better place to discuss this. > >> I am a newbie to sage. One >> thing I notice right away, is that sage says it is 'batteries >> included'. I >> think that a sage package on fedora should co-operate with existing >> packages. For example, there already are numpy, scipy, octave, >> maxima. >> Can sage use such existing packages? > > In theory: yes. But in practice we do build all those since using > different version numbers can cause trouble. But since we have an > extensive test suite you should catch those issues. We are currently > on the way to package Sage on Debian and we plan to coordinate with > the maintainers of the packages that are already in Debian. > > You might want to make a list of what already is in FC and what is > not. Then you should compare version numbers. > Thanks for the info. Is there a list of what packages sage could make use of? Is this the same thing being planned for debian? (I mean, the idea of re-using some existing packages)
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