On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:38 AM, cschwan <csch...@stamaonline.de> wrote: > 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
Could you please respond to that thread with this list? It will make it easier for me when I'm going through and making a summary. Thanks. > > Questions: > - Is sqlalchemy still needed ? After removing dsage a quick grep > showed that no package in Sage uses it Yes, it is still needed. It is used, e.g., by the database of graphs. > - Sage uses twisted-web2-8.1.0 which is officially deprecated. > Upgrading to twisted-web-9.x would be nice twisted-web2 and twisted-web are not compatible. Making that "upgrade" would require a significant rewrite of the notebook. At some point that should probably happen. > - Which directories in devel/sage/build are actually needed ? They > look very similar and take quite a lot of disk space wst...@ubuntu:~/sage/devel/sage$ ls build/ lib.linux-x86_64-2.6 sage temp.linux-x86_64-2.6 You need the directory "sage". It *is* the actual Sage library install, i.e., there is a symlink from local/lib/python/site-packages/sage to this. It's not just a temporary build staging area. > - Singular is heavily modified which make it impossible to split it > out of Sage - are there any intentions to send these modifications to > upstream ? Yes. 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
