On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Jaap Spies <j.sp...@hccnet.nl> wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Dima Pasechnik<dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Robert, >>> the advantage is that it will simplify the *development* of Sage. >>> Right now lots of stoppers seem to come from upstream packages. >>> >>> I also do not see a real problem with "specific versions" of >>> packages. Somehow, >>> all the other open-source math projects seem to be able to manage this >>> well, >>> e.g. Singular manages to coordinate with GMP. >>> As well, lots of things like needlessly tying Sage up to a very >>> particular version or >>> an environment can be sorted out simply by using autoconf properly... >> >> I so wish you were right! The programs you refer to like Singular >> are very simple and tiny compared to Sage. If things were so easy as >> you think, somebody would already have set things up so one can do >> things that way. Nothing is stopping anyway from doing that now. >> > > Happens that Singular is a stumbling stone in the port of Sage to > Open Solaris 64 bit! As it comes to building libsingular I have no clue at > the moment. >
Even things that are relative simple aren't very simple. Sage has a cross-platform build system and environment. One question that is related to the discussion in this thread is what the situation is with other cross-platform build environments. Of course I know about Debian/Fink/Cygwin/etc., which are specific to different operating systems. Does anybody know of *any* good cross-platform build environments besides Sage? Python is such a thing to some extent... William -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
