On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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.
In your mind, is Linux on Itanium2 dead or alive? 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
