I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw its grave.
Here is one of the many obituaries: http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 I see you suggested Sage switch to GMP for an HP-UX port. Well, not only will MPIR not be supporting HP-UX, but some time between now and March this year, we will be removing the assembly support for the PA- RISC processors. Recently we found an actual PA-RISC machine (though not running HP-UX) and the assembly code was totally broken. No one has stepped forward to work on fixing it. No one we now has the expertise. We'll also be removing the assembly support for a plethora of other platforms that have long died, even their manufacturers disowning them. The rule will be: if people aren't using it, and we don't have access to one and it is more than a certain number of years old, support will be discontinued. Supporting dead architectures is a massive waste of developer effort. We urgently need ports to Solaris 64 bit and to Windows Vista and and Windows 7, 32 and 64 bit. We should be focusing all our efforts on these important ports, instead of dead platforms/architectures like AIX, HP-UX and TRU64. Bill. On Jan 31, 10:44 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms > > is very out of date. This is no criticism o the web master - I know only too > well it is next to impossible to keep a web site up to date. > > Here are the points. > > 1) Solaris 9 on Sparc 32 bit (ongoing, getting close, mabshoff is working on > this) > > Truth: mabshoff has left. > > Unless someone else comes along and does some work, I can't see this really > happening. > > 2) Solaris 9 on Sparc 64 bit (work will start on this once the 32 bit port > works > > Truth: Nobody is making any effort on this front. > > 3) Solaris 10 on Sparc 32 bit (ongoing, getting close, mabshoff is working on > this) > > Truth: Solaris 10 32-bit SPARC builds easily on 4.3.0.1, though some test > failures are observed, which need to be resolved. > > 4) Solaris 10 on Sparc 64 bit (work will start on this once the 32 bit port > works) > > Truth: Open Solaris 64-bit is seen as a higher priority, but one might expect > that 64-bit Solaris 10 on SPARC will work at some point. > > 5) Solaris 10 on x86 32 bit, Opteron/EMT64 32 bit (ongoing, getting close, > mabshoff is working on this) > > Truth: Nobody is working on a Solaris 10 32-bit x86 port and I doubt they ever > will. We are going directly to 64-bit, and certainly will not bother then > making > a 32-bit build. > > 6) Solaris 10 on Opteron/EMT64 64 bit (work will start on this once the 32 bit > port works) > > Truth. Active development for a 64-bit Open Solaris build, which will run on > any > modern processor from Intel or AMD. > > 7) BSD support on x86, x86-64: most likely FreeBSD > Truth. There is active development for a FreeBSD port, but not for the other > BSDs' > > 8) the AIX 64 bit port is in the early stages - it can be followed at The AIX > 64 > bit port page > > Truth: Nobody is seriously working on an AIX port. > > 9) I am actually putting some effort into an HP-UX port. Whether this ever > gets > completed is another matter. Details at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/HP-UX > > Dave -- 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
