As a user of sage, I'm quite happy with all of the work that has been going in to the Solaris port lately. Currently I have to use it from a zone running linux, which isn't so bad except the zones typically run older distributions of Linux. I know it creates additional work and I also thank all the sage developers for attempting to support that platform, even if it is not currently a large target market. I believe its market will continue to grow slowly; comparing it to HP-UX isn't quite fair, since their feature sets are very different and one has been modernized and open sourced, the other one I can only assume not so much.
On Feb 1, 2:49 am, Nick Alexander <ncalexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31-Jan-10, at 11:35 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander > > <ncalexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a > >> *product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation, > >> or maintaining the web site and we have an inferior project, but we > >> still have a project. Take away support for Solaris or HP-UX, and we > >> don't serve what appears, to me, to be a small market. (Certainly > >> small compared to the potential pool of Microsoft Windows users.) > > > IMHO, that's a particularly unhelpful attitude. > > Who said that was my attitude? I explicitly recognized David's > efforts on our behalf. > > But notice: in your reply, the one thing you didn't subject to your > thought experiment was Solaris support! > > I think I am done with this thread. I have put in my two cents; I > think everyone reading this thread knows that at least one sage > developer is not thrilled with the additional burden that Solaris/HPUX/ > platform X support puts on the project. I'm certainly not intending > to agitate against your efforts -- but I would like that the cost that > comes with them be recognized, and, when reasonable, debated. > > Nick -- 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
