On 15 Feb., 12:38, 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. >
Hello Christopher, welcome to the sage-devel list! It's good to see, that there is interest from the Gentoo community in "sage-on-gentoo", as your project is called. Thanks for your update, and for your questions (already answered be others quicker than me)! Personally, I think it would be interesting to experiment with a combo of "sage-on-gentoo" and "Gentoo/Prefix", but I do not see anyone (me included) having any time to devote to something like that. Of course, it would only be a second step, after "sage-on-gentoo" being stable, and well-maintained for a longer period of time. But the potential benefit would be a new possibility to deploy Sage as such (we already do something similar with "Sage in a VirtualBox image", which actually contains not only Sage, but a bare-bones GNU/Linux installation). There is already Gentoo/Prefix support on GNU/Linux, OS X (giving me a chance to install Fink/Macports and Sage in parallel, without any PATH etc. trouble), Solaris, and Windows/Interix. Although there currently seems to be no support for Gentoo/Prefix on Windows/Cygwin or Windows/ MinGW, I guess this is mainly because nobody ever cared, or tried. Especially the last options, e.g. a combo of "sage-on-gentoo" and Gentoo/Prefix on Windows64/MinGW64, would fit extremely well in the Sage roadmap (since Windows/Interix is available only for the Ultimate/ Enterprise versions of Windows, but not for the vast majority of Windows users). Of course, today, that's nothing but a vision ... Cheers, Georg -- 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
