On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM, <peterjer...@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On 2009-Jun-24 00:56:38 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> > wrote: >>Would it not be sensible to ask around on some FreeBSD/NetBSD mailing >>lists etc, and see if one could drum up enough support to start a port? > > I've done some work on getting Sage to work on FreeBSD but there is > still a way to go. For various reasons, I haven't tried building Sage > 4.x yet. It's not clear whether Sage will ever be accepted into the > FreeBSD ports system (because the "everything in one tarball" approach > used by Sage is inconsistent with the FreeBSD model).
Sage is in Debian, so it could maybe go into FreeBSD. The Sage in Debian is not "everything in one tarball" -- instead Tim Abbott went through and made sure every single spkg in Sage had a corresponding Debian spkg. > See http://wiki.sagemath.org/freebsd for progress to date. Thanks! > >>I don't know much about the *BSD's, having never played with them for >>more than a few minutes, but I can't see why there should be any huge >>hurdles to overcome. > > Some of the spkg files and underlying applications have "all the world > is Linux" assumptions embedded in them - '/bin/sh' being bash and 'make' > being GNU make being the most pervasive. I have fixes for most of these > (and the Solaris port will run into similar problems). > >>'Solaris' and some other users. But the *BSDs seem popular enough to >>warrant at least some effort in getting a port started. > > Note that it's not just getting a port started but also having the > critical mass to keep the port working. Sage is currently evolving > extremely rapidly and so there will be ongoing effort to ensure that > Sage remains functional. > > -- > Peter Jeremy > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
