Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 14:28, Pere Urbón Bayes wrote: > >> Any way im starting doing a debian package. >> > > Hi there, > > just my five cents: > * There was a thread on debian-science on this, see: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2006/10/msg00020.html > > IIRC there was a discussion to create a sage-pkg project on alioth. > > * If I may express a wish: I would really like to see a modular Debian > package of SAGE, i.e., GAP, Singular, Python, etc. are packages of their >
A warning: 1. The gap debian package is delayed by 6 months or so and splits things up in a way that many SAGE wrappers for GAP functions will probably break. For example, debian distributes no GAP packages, not even GPL'd ones. I think the debian version is at 4.4.4 but we have 4.4.8: http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/gap 2. Likewise for maxima, which is still at 5.9.1 (we have 5.10 I think). http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/maxima A agree with William that a good starting point is to make a Debian SAGE package that installs everything into /opt. I think Martin is not suggesting to use the official Debian packages but to provide our own repository, which means we would (eventually) maintain our own deb versions of GAP, Maxima, etc. This is a great long term goal, IMHO. Pere - you seem willing to lead the effort - what do you say? > own which SAGE depends on. Many of SAGE's dependencies are already packaged > somewhere (e.g. check the Knoppix Math project) but probably not with the > right fixes/changes applied: See SAGE.txt in every spkg package. > > * I'm pretty confident not only Bobby Moretti will support you and anybody > attempting to build Debian packages but many SAGE developers including > myself are eager to see Debian packages. > > Martin > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
