I just remembered the mails below. I think, I have confused matlab with mathematica. Well, "A free distribution of the world's most widely used open source mathematical software that builds easily from source" If this states "most widely used opensource which builds easily from source" then you are right. But, if this states "most widely used opensource" and at the same time "builds easily from source" then for other software, some info for showing it is difficult to maintain for some platforms can have a standpoint. If it is easy to build from source, I can build it on anywhere I like. If don't like the ones in your mails, which are harder to be maintained at those platforms, than it will not be easy to build it from source. Anyway, just an idea. Hope it helps...
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On May 15, 1:57 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> > wrote: > > Hi Dave, > >> This might interest some. >> >> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/brows... >> >> where someone is questioning the commitment of Wolfram Research towards >> Solaris. There are currently no replies to it, but it will be >> interesting if anyone from Wolfram Research responds. >> >> Dave > > Well, if you look at > > http://www.mathworks.com/support/sysreq/roadmap.html > > you will see a couple other interesting platform support problems: > > * No Solaris support by Mathworks on Intel CPUs - ever! I remember > some discussion about people basically running Mathworks products in > Linux zones on Solaris instead, but obviously once you have to use > emulation to run software on your preferred OS it is the end or at > least not a good sign, i.e OS/2 and Windows should have taught > everybody a lesson. > * No more new Solaris/Sparc Mathworks releases after the end of 2009 > * We beat them to 64 bit OSX support - at least one of the major > projects ;) > * No new releases for any OSX/PPC after the end of 2007 > > Contrast that with Maple from > > http://www.maplesoft.com/futureplatforms.aspx > > where they state that they will release future Maple version also on > Solaris 9/10 on Sparc. It seems they never had a Solaris/x86 release. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > ahmet alper parker wrote: >> why not cite wolfram's own pages for lack of support for Solaris? If >> it is so easy for others to build and maintain their software, why >> they lack Solaris support? I remember such a posting at the group. > > I can't see what this has in particular to do with Solaris, but in any > case, Mathematica is supported on Solaris - both SPARC and x86. It is > now supported on Intel chips too. So I don't think you would find any > Wolfram pages saying there is a lack of support for Solaris. > > > Dave > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URLs: http://www.sagemath.org > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
