[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
> Building SAGE on Linux/ARM at all is likely a major project. SAGE is quite > large and probably nobody has every compiled some of the key components > on Linux/ARM before. Because many of those components are very tightly coded > C (and sometimes assembly) mathematics libraries, there could be

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Abshoff
Ondrej Certik wrote: > Hello, >> >> current stable release on a whim, so I think getting Sage into Ubuntu >> is >> >> a >> >> much more reachable goal. It also seems that Ubuntu is getting a lot >> >> more >> >> mindshare in the *desktop* these days (compared to Debian unstable). >> >> I meant D

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread William Stein
On 7/17/07, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, Debian supports a lot more architectures and from what I know it is > > discouraged to limit the architecture due to non-technical reasons. Sage > > is widely used on Linux and x86, x86-64 and to some extend on PPC and > > Itanic, but

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
> >> current stable release on a whim, so I think getting Sage into Ubuntu is > >> a > >> much more reachable goal. It also seems that Ubuntu is getting a lot > >> more > >> mindshare in the *desktop* these days (compared to Debian unstable). > > I meant Debian *stable* in the end, not *unstable*

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Abshoff
Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> While solution (1) is against the "Debian Way" (2) is next to impossible >> from a debugging standpoint, i.e. which version of libSingular, g++ and >> clisp are you using? I don't think anybody intends to get Sage into the >> official Debian distribution because maintaini

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread Ondrej Certik
> While solution (1) is against the "Debian Way" (2) is next to impossible > from a debugging standpoint, i.e. which version of libSingular, g++ and > clisp are you using? I don't think anybody intends to get Sage into the > official Debian distribution because maintaining a stable branch release

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Abshoff
William Stein wrote: > > On 7/17/07, Georges Khaznadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, I would like to make a Debian package of Sage. >> >> I recently attended a talk of Professor Tsai who uses it in Taiwan, and >> it was pretty convincing. >> >> Apparently, Sage depends on other software whi

[sage-devel] Re: Packaging Sage

2007-07-17 Thread William Stein
On 7/17/07, Georges Khaznadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I would like to make a Debian package of Sage. > > I recently attended a talk of Professor Tsai who uses it in Taiwan, and > it was pretty convincing. > > Apparently, Sage depends on other software which should be packaged > separat