Volker, Any chance you have a moment to make some remarks about hashdist in this thread? https://github.com/hashdist/hashdist
-- William On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > As another data point, I always had trouble running gentoo-prefix / > lemona.de on Fedora. More often than not it caughed up some error about file > ownership/permissions and errored out. > > Fundamentally, I think a user-space package manager like conda or hashdist > is sufficiently different from a system-level package manager. E.g. for the > former it is perfectly fine to blow away the entire managed file tree and > reinstall, which doesn't really work on the system level. The latter has > lots of other duties (like file ownership/permissions) which require admin > access. > > As another example, rpm can also act as user-space package manager. Its just > that everybody has long given up on building relocatable rpms and it has > long gotten used to having admin access, so its a theoretical possibliity at > best. > > > > On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 8:14:13 PM UTC+1, François wrote: >> >> In early 2011 we had a working version of sage on gentoo-prefix on OS X >> via sage-on-gentoo. >> Then the situation degraded as apple “support” for gcc vanished. >> At the moment we have a working toolchain based on clang on gentoo prefix >> but >> no working fortran compiler as far as I can see. >> I tried to work on bringing a pre made gfortran but definitely lack the >> time to do so. >> So at the moment sage-on-gentoo-prefix on OS X is indeed stopped. >> >> François >> >> > On 12/03/2016, at 04:01, Francesco Biscani <blues...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > With that said, my experiences with the prefix version of gentoo on OSX >> > have been a bit of a mixed bag. It felt to me like it was very close to be >> > generally viable, but a lot of manual tweaking was still needed. I have no >> > experiences with it on Windows platforms, but I think it does have some >> > support for cygwin. >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
