There used to be Itanium machines on the GCC Compile Farm, and I have access there, in particular for testing/developing Sage stuff. I don't now the current situation though. Actually, I am supposed to write a laius about the need for Sage portability on exotic archs/porting somehow on Windows (basically for code quality, but also to satisfy Windows users unable to use VMs) for the European H2020 thing but I'm a little bit overwhelemed right now and cannot find time to polish my text.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:15:56 PM UTC+2, William wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:50 AM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es <javascript:>> > wrote: > > In the download page, we offer binaries for red hat 5.3 (+4 years old) > over > > itanium architecture. The version of Sage is 5.0.1 (+2 years old). > > > > Is it really useful to keep it? Are there any actual downloads? > > > > I would say that, if we can support Fedora over Itanium (that is, if we > have > > a buildbot that can build and test each release), then we should keep > > updated versions. If we don't have that buildot anymore, we should drop > that > > kind of support. > > > > Similar situation (in the sense of offering only old versions of Sage, > > mostly 5.13) appears in the linux over arm and sparc, solaris over x86 > and > > OSX over powerpc. > > > > So, can we update those binaries? And if we can't, should we just drop > them? > > I'm fine with dropping them at this point. Maybe we can move them to > a third party site for dying/old stuff, such as *sourceforge*. > > The motivation for having them was that we had an agreement with a > company many years ago to support Itanium. That's long since over, > and we Sage developers do *not* have access to any Itanium machines at > this time. > > If we did have access to Itanium, then continuing to support them > would be really good, for code quality reasons. > > -- William > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
