[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: >> Would it make more sense to include something like busybox >> (www.busybox.net) into sage? > > I do not believe so. [snip] > Sage is designed to run on workstations and servers, not small embedded > systems.

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > Would it make more sense to include something like busybox > (www.busybox.net) into sage? I do not believe so. > Busybox includes a shell (ash, I think), > and most shellutils and textutils one would probably want to use (this > includes awk, sed, etc). Instead of try

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
Would it make more sense to include something like busybox (www.busybox.net) into sage? Busybox includes a shell (ash, I think), and most shellutils and textutils one would probably want to use (this includes awk, sed, etc). Instead of trying to fix the sage shell scripts to work in any combinati

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi David, > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: > > > >> Learn more from my ticket at >> >> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 > > I was attracted by the following comment of yours: > > {{{ > I've tested this on > > * AIX 6.1, compli

[sage-devel] Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!

2009-10-11 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Learn more from my ticket at > > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7188 I was attracted by the following comment of yours: {{{ I've tested this on * AIX 6.1, compliments of http://www.metamodul.com/10.html }}} Th