I need some guidance on what do about some issues we have. I'll summarise, since not everyone is going to be aware of them.
1) Sage will not build on Solaris SPARC due to issues in the latest official ecl. (It is not the only issue, but is one of them). 2) The ecl developers have solved that, and there is a CVS snapshot which builds ecl ok on Solaris. A new ecl release will be out in less than a week. 3) I created a ecl.spkg, based on a snapshot I took yesterday, which allows ecl to build on Solaris. I put it at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/ecl-9.4.1.p0/ecl-9.4.1.p0.spkg 4) We are not using the latest maxima. (Sage uses 5.16.3 with a couple of patches (maxima-5.16.3.p2.spkg) 5) The latest maxima is maxima-5.18.1 6) The problem persists in the latest maxima. 7) An ecl devoper has created patches against the latest maxima in cvs. Have you any thoughts on the best way to progress this? We have several options. 1) Do nothing, in which case Sage will not build on Solaris SPARC. 2) Wait a week for a new official ecl which will allow ecl to build on Solaris. That has one big problem - Maxima will fail on all platforms. 3) Use CVS snapshots of both ecl and maxima, then apply the patches to maxima developed by the ecl developer. That should (though I have not tested it) allow Sage to use an ecl/maxima combination which works on every platform, including Solaris. But it would not be based on stable releases, but CVS copies of both maxima and ecl which are patched. A bit risky I think. 4) Wait a week or so to get a new official ecl, use that, along with with the latest CVS of maxima and patch maxima. 5) I wait until we get a new ecl, I add that, and attempt to patch the version of Maxima in Sage. Then leave it for someone who knows more about maxima to decide what to do about any upgrading of maxima. 6) What might be best, if I could get the help of a maxima guru, is we use the latest official maxima, apply the patches against the cvs (hoping the maxima patches can be easily implemented. I suspect they can, as there patches are quite small). Then I integrate a new ecl when it comes out. Maxima will then work with the new ecl. Any thoughts? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
