Therse are really excelent news!, that will make Sage much more easy to install on Linux systems. Many thanks!!
Pablo On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Tim Abbott <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
