On 20 April 2013 13:33, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > People promised a couple of times (last time early this year IIRC) that t2 > (i.e., a SPARC) will come back... > > For x86[_64], we may ask Dave whether he would want us to build binaries on > hawk. > > > -leif
I have no objection to building binaries on hawk. But there would be no point, as that is running OpenSolaris which would not offer binary compatibility with much else. It might work with a Solaris 10 or 11 machine, but there would be no guarantee it would. If an x86 or SPARC machine running an early Solaris 10 release was used, then it would run on any more recent Solaris distribution. Binary compatibility on Solaris is excellent. Even 25 year old binaries should run. But such compatibility will not extend to OpenSolaris. IF binaries were built, I'd suggest the first release of Solaris 10 (released 2005) would be best. But forget using hawk for this. It might be worth keeping an older SPARC binary around - perhaps update it every 6 months or so. I don't mind producing one and uploading it now and again. It's a shame t2.math, which was donated free by Sun, is no longer in use. Although the type of CPU it uses was a poor choice for Sage, after Sage would build in parallel, it was far less painless than before. I never quite worked out how the Sun engineer that got that donated to the Sage project picked such an unsuitable CPU. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
