On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:42 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > William Stein wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:33 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de >> <mailto:not.rea...@online.de>> wrote: >> >> Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> On 04/20/2013 12:14 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: >> >> Le 20/04/2013 10:29, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : >> >> I propose to complete remove the page >> http://www.sagemath.org/__download-solaris.html >> >> <http://www.sagemath.org/download-solaris.html> >> since one might conclude that Sage versions laters than >> Sage 4.7 don't >> support Solaris, which is completely false. >> >> What is true is that there are no *binaries* made for >> Solaris. Given the >> small number of Solaris users and given the slowness of >> our Solaris >> machine, I see not much point in making such binaries. >> >> >> How slow do you mean? It takes me two days to build a bdist >> for sage... >> >> That's pretty slow, isn't it? Perhaps the Skynet machine can do >> it in >> one day, but still, I doubt the usefulness. >> >> >> People promised a couple of times (last time early this year IIRC) >> that t2 (i.e., a SPARC) will come back... >> >> >> t2 will definitely *not* be coming back. > > > Ok. I think those running Solaris SPARC machines are rather unlikely to use > pre-built [Sage] binaries anyway.
Good point. > I would probably keep the directory / page though, with just a README > explaining that we still (intend to) support Solaris on x86 and SPARC (and > regularly test on these platforms), but simply do no longer offer binary > distributions of Sage for these. If we test on these platforms, clearly we have binaries. Is sticking the (test) binaries on the site that hard? - Robert -- 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.
