[sage-devel] Re: Proposing some changes to sage-env for portability

2009-10-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
Apologies for a very belated response as I've been off the net. On 2009-Oct-02 11:42:17 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >I was thinking of making some changes to sage-env, with the main aim of >improving portability and getting rid of GNUisms. I support this. >3) Check 'tar' is GNU tar. I'm

[sage-devel] Re: Proposing some changes to sage-env for portability

2009-10-05 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> I was thinking of making some changes to sage-env, with the main aim of >> improving portability and getting rid of GNUisms. I'd be intersted in >> any thoughts on the following, or other things which could be don

[sage-devel] Re: Proposing some changes to sage-env for portability

2009-10-04 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > I was thinking of making some changes to sage-env, with the main aim of > improving portability and getting rid of GNUisms. I'd be intersted in > any thoughts on the following, or other things which could be done. I've > also made some c