[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Oct-23 00:45:00 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: >> I had changed the wording somewhat anyway, but I would admit I had not >> considered other applications. > > I suspect that most potential users won't be able to dedicate a host to > Sage - especially if they a

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Oct-23 00:45:00 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >I had changed the wording somewhat anyway, but I would admit I had not >considered other applications. I suspect that most potential users won't be able to dedicate a host to Sage - especially if they are just trialling it. This implies

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-23 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >>> I note from there: >>> >>> "latex -- highly recommended, though not strictly required" >>> >>> Should a warning be issued if latex is not installed? >> >> Latex used to be a lot more important in Sage than it

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: >> I note from there: >> >> "latex -- highly recommended, though not strictly required" >> >> Should a warning be issued if latex is not installed? > > Latex used to be a lot more important in Sage than it is now. > E.g., it used to be required to build *any* documentation,

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-23 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM, David Kirkby wrote: > > 2009/10/23 Robert Bradshaw : >>> There are many things that are checked in configure scripts, but I >>> do not know >>> what are actually needed. Does Sage need 'yacc' or 'bison' for >>> example? If I >>> knew it did, then I could add a te

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" >>> wrote: I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their operating system is too old. In the case of a Sol

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-23 Thread David Kirkby
2009/10/23 Robert Bradshaw : >> There are many things that are checked in configure scripts, but I >> do not know >> what are actually needed. Does Sage need 'yacc' or 'bison' for >> example? If I >> knew it did, then I could add a test for that early on, to save >> someone the >> trouble of spend

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 22, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > > wrote: >>> I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their >>> operating system >>> is too old. In the case of a Solaris 9 machine it will say: >>

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-22 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: >> I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their operating >> system >> is too old. In the case of a Solaris 9 machine it will say: > > Whilst I agree in principal, I have some concerns about the

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Oct-16 13:05:02 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >I'm updating a configure script which will warn users if their operating >system >is too old. In the case of a Solaris 9 machine it will say: Whilst I agree in principal, I have some concerns about the wording. >configure: WARNING: You

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-16 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi William, On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:25 AM, William Stein wrote: > We have a PPC OS X 10.4 machine on skynet, so I see no reason for us > to not always test on PPC OS X 10.4. Indeed, SkyNet has such a machine. But I don't have an account on that PPC OS X 10.4 machine yet. -- Regards Minh

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-16 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi David, > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > > >> The top level README.txt says "We do not always test on OS X 10.4, but Sage >> should work there fine." Is that still true? > > I have successfully compile

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-16 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > The top level README.txt says "We do not always test on OS X 10.4, but Sage > should work there fine." Is that still true? I have successfully compiled Sage 4.1.2 on MacIntel OS X 10.4.11. All doctests pass. -- Regards M

[sage-devel] Re: Operating systems too old or too new.

2009-10-16 Thread kcrisman
> I think I'll have to leave any tests for linux (or let someone else write > them), > as I believe there are too many different distributions to worry about. > However, > on OS X I believe it is practical to list what version is too old and so > advise > someone to upgrade. I believe that OSX