On Mar 27, 11:15 am, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: > > No, I'm barely getting started. I hardly know my way around Gentoo, I > > had no interest in it until I discovered Gentoo prefix. (I need to > > distribute software on clusters, and I certainly don't have root > > access to those! -- and I'm really glad that the others who are on the > > cluster don't have root access either.) > > > Thanks for pointing out the Sage overlay to me, that certainly looks > > nice. It's nice to know that it is there, although I only use the > > NumPy/SciPy/matplotlib/IPython parts of Sage myself. So far it looks > > like Gentoo actually contains more of the packages I use than Sage > > does; if it just all works on prefix (or without too many changes)... > > You picked my curiosity. You want to use prefix on a cluster. So it would be > prefix on linux or prefix on solaris, or something else altogether?
Prefix on Linux. "My own" cluster runs Linux. Of course, there's lots of installed software by the sysadmins (swappable using modules.sourceforge.net -- highly recommended!). However, like many Sage developers, I routinely patch and fix and custom build my dependencies, and I can't really bother the sysadmins every time I want to push a recompile of NumPy or whatever. And managing the packages "manually" gets tedious in the long run. Also now I need to distribute it as a standalone package to somebody who has NO experience with Python whatsoever, and I don't even know what system they are on yet -- and I come dragging with my 15+ package dependency. So there are two alternatives: - Write spkgs for everything I use (including some stuff which already have Gento packages, such as suitesparse) and give them Sage - Point them to a stripped Gento prefix bootstrap, and write Gento packages for the (fewer) packages that are missing Dag Sverre -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
