Actually, he was asking that I don't purposely break MPIR. We won't be purposely breaking anything. Merely not supporting it ourselves. If David wishes to support it, that is his prerogative.
As for FLINT, it has never built on HP-UX, ever. I'm not going to put even 5 minutes into trying to get it to do so. It is completely beyond the scope of what FLINT is for. However, I would reconsider this matter if linux went south on Itanium. Then HP-UX would be the only viable option, and there may be a point to having Sage build on HP-UX in that case. But I expect this to be very painful for all involved. For the time being, however, I am resolute on this issue. I don't have the time. If David wants to submit patches (properly formatted) so that FLINT will build on HP-UX, then I'll merge them as I find time, so long as they don't radically change the way FLINT works and don't require extensive changes. Bill. On Feb 1, 5:51 am, Tim Lahey <tim.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02-01-2010, at 12:45 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > > > > I take issue with the claim that you have done "a LOT" for Sage. Let me be > > clear: I appreciate the effort you put into porting Sage to other > > architectures. But I question how many people are interested in actually > > using Sage on those architectures. You can read the obvious frustration > > Bill Hart feels around supporting flint and other software on these unusual > > architectures. I want to make it clear that he is not the only one > > frustrated with the recent emphasis on porting issues that are unlikely to > > affect me. > > Solaris isn't exactly an "unusual" architecture. That's what he's done the > most at > supporting. He certainly has done "a LOT" at supporting it. I think what he's > asking > that Bill not purposely break FLINT since it does currently work. > > > By and large, we are a community of mathematicians. Correct me if I'm > > wrong, but you are not contributing to the mathematical aspects of Sage. > > Until that changes, your goals and my goals are only occasionally aligned. > > I hate to think that the only people that are valid contributors to Sage are > mathematicians. So, doing the release management, fixing bugs, documentation, > or > maintaining the web site aren't important? > > Cheers, > > Tim. > > --- > Tim Lahey > PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering > University of Waterloohttp://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey -- 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
