I just stumbled over "Gentoo prefix" -- have any of you tried it out?
In short, it allows a Gentoo "Linux" system in a subdirectory, on Linux,
Mac, Windows/SUA, Solaris. Gentoo is thus awfully similar to the Sage
spkg system:
- Installs Unix software in a common prefix location.
- Package system based on simple shell scripts.
For Sage, it seems like a perfect solution for e.g. easily setting up
GNU toolchains on Solaris or Windows/SUA, since somebody else maintains
the bootstrapping scripts. (I don't remember whether you require GNU on
Solaris now -- on Windows SUA it could definitely be useful if you ever
go there).
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/index.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml
For my own purposes this might easily repla..*ehrm*..supplement Sage as
my scientific Python environment. At least I'm going to try it out for
some time. The primary problem now seems to be the requirement of a
seperately installed toolchain rather that using the one on the host
system; I've asked on the list about that...
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Dag Sverre
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