Hello all, As of today, Sage 3.0.5 is available in Debian sid, so you can now run "apt-get install sagemath" and get Sage installed on your Debian system[1].
However, the sage package has bitrotted substantially during the 7 months it was hanging out in the NEW queue, so I'd not count on it to work. In fact, Ondrej Certik has already reported it segfaulting at startup on i386. Bugs are being tracked (as usual) at <http://bugs.debian.org/sagemath> and we're currently using [email protected] for related discussion. I plan send mail here again once I upload a version that is believed working on x86. I'm planning to begin work on upgrading to 3.3 this weekend, since I believe that will help with some of the problems. It looks like there are a couple of likely complications: (1) Sage 3.3 alphas seem to be using an svn revision of MPIR. Is it possible to use GMP instead? Or alternatively, is there a stable MPIR release yet? (2) Sage seems to contain an spkg for "pynac", which is apparently a python-integrated gynac, where Sage is the upstream source? Does it have anything to do with this pynac: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pynac/>? -Tim Abbott [1] Well, if your system is running one of the architectures on which Sage compiles. Apparently, Sage builds on s390 but not MIPS; who'd have known? The apparent problem with MIPS is the use of long double functions like sqrtl in the Sage library (in sage/combinat/partitions_c.cc, and maybe nowhere else). MIPS support is quite low on my priority list, but if you're interested, feel free to send me patches. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
