Hello, since this is my first post on this list I think it is a good idea to briefly introduce myself: My name is Christopher Schwan, I am studying physics at Uni Mainz (Germany) and I am one of the maintainers of "sage-on-gentoo" (http://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo). Francois Bissey, the other man working on it already wrote some comments about it, but now about three months passed and I would like to report the status of our project.
Our intention was and still is to provide so called "Split Ebuilds" for the Gentoo Linux distribution to enable users of this distribution to build Sage on Gentoo (since building from source is the default way of installing programs on Gentoo). "Split" means that Sage and its dependencies are seperately installed (and out of Sage's directories) - we do this not only because its part of Gentoo's philosophy, but also because of that makes it much easier maintainable. I think we proved that this is actually possible, because we have removed most of Sage's dependencies and only a handful are left. Doing that some questions and suggestions arised which would ease our work. The following Tickets should be fixed imo (my top 4 bugs which should be fixed for Sage 4.4, referring to the post of William Stein in "Vote on bugs to be fixed for sage-4.4 "stabilization release"): - update cvxopt, ticket #6456 - remove pyprocessing, ticket #6503 - update networkx, ticket #7608 - patch combinat, ticket #7803 Questions: - Is sqlalchemy still needed ? After removing dsage a quick grep showed that no package in Sage uses it - Sage uses twisted-web2-8.1.0 which is officially deprecated. Upgrading to twisted-web-9.x would be nice - Which directories in devel/sage/build are actually needed ? They look very similar and take quite a lot of disk space - Singular is heavily modified which make it impossible to split it out of Sage - are there any intentions to send these modifications to upstream ? -- 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
