On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 at 12:31AM -0800, mabshoff wrote: > Well, it took the better part of the night, but I finally got Sage > 1.0.0 to build and start on sage.math. William dared me in IRC to do > this last night, but I showed him [being obviously aware of reverse > psychology here :)] > > mabsh...@sage:/disk/scratch/mabshoff-sage-releases/sage-1.0.0$ ./sage > -------------------------------------------------------- > | SAGE Version 1.0.0, Build Date: 2006-02-04-0049 | > | Distributed under the GNU General Public License V2 | > | For help type <object>?, <object>??, %magic, or help | > --------------------------------------------------------
If you got it to build last night, why does it say February 4, 2006? Is that the release date? > I have also thought about how one could distribute these and would > suggest the following: Set up a VMWare image with LTS 8.04 and the > older compilers I build in order to get the old stuff to compile. Then > -bdist all the installs and put them up on some webspace. The image > would then have a menu that downloads a list of given version and the > user can then select sage-x.z.y and install it in parallel locally > with other installs. At the same time it should be possible to deleted > installs and so on. That way we can have a on-demand repo to install > any reasonable version of Sage for this particular VMWare image. Given > that LTS 8.04 has support until 2013 it seems that plenty of version > should be available by then. If someone wants to do this or make it a > student project for a minion I am more than happy to write up a SEP > for someone to use as a basis for an implementation. Technically, it's only the server version that is supported to 2013; the desktop version is supported for three years, to 2011. And it's probably only the "main" repo that is guaranteed to get updates; restricted, universe and multiverse will not, I think, get security updates. (I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to what "supported" means; is it everything in main and restricted, or what?) At any rate, the next LTS is 2010 so we'll have a year to update the VMWare image. I'm sure it won't be problem. Overall, this is a great idea! Dan -- --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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