A ticket I opened years ago about a problem on AIX, got closed recently. It got me thinking about something whose usefulness could well extend beyond one issue building Sage on AIX.
I gather William is having problems getting funding from NSF and similar places. I wonder if it's time to look at this a different way. Based on things in the past 1) Sun sponsored a port to Solaris, and paid the salary of someone. Unfortunately the computer they donated (t2) was not suited to the task, but that is irrelevant now. We did eventually get Sage ported to Solaris. 2) Someone from IBM contacted William some time ago an IBM funded port to AIX. I got involved, as I did have an AIX box, but nothing ever came of it. I am realistic, and don't expect many Sage developers to care less about AIX, although I think there is at least one other that will do. IBM do have some nice hardware. But how about contacting manufacturers of other devices, to sponsor either a full Sage port, or a subset of Sage. Some that come to mind are i) Nokia ii) Samsung iii) Apple iv) Microsoft v) Oracle, with their own flavor of Linux. vi) Cray - obviously concentrating on parallel processing Then there's the possibility of a mobiles apps for Android and Apple phones that have a subset of functionality without internet access, and better access with internet access. Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D CEng MIET Kirkby Microwave Ltd Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Essex, CM3 6DT, UK. Registered in England and Wales, company number 08914892. http://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Tel: 07910 441670 / +44 7910 441670 (0900 to 2100 GMT only please) -- 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.
