On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:29 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >>> If the spkg fixes this problem and doesn't make things *worse* on >>> Solaris, it absolutely should get a positive review. Note that the >>> assuming "CC=gcc" was already in the original cliquer spkg. It is not >>> something added by that ticket. >> >> Fair enough. >> >> In fact, cliquer presents problems on Solaris too. See the ticket I >> created a couple of weeks ago. >> >> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6852 >> >> "cliquer-1.2 fails to build as it cant find Sun compiler (SCons issue)" >> >> >>> If we were discussing including cliquer in the first place, I might >>> have a different opinion. >> >> >> So what would your thoughts be, if someone one to propose package X is >> added, despite the fact it will not build on all of the following? >> >> 1) Build as 32-bit gcc on SPARC >> 2) Build as 64-bit gcc on SPARC >> 3) Build as 32-bit with Sun's compiler on SPARC >> 4) Build as 64-bit with Sun's compiler on SPARC >> >> 5) Build as 32-bit gcc on x64 >> 6) Build as 64-bit gcc on x64 >> 7) Build as 32-bit with Sun's compiler on x86 >> 8) Build as 64-bit with Sun's compiler on x64 > > > I'm pretty much by default against adding any new standard packages to > Sage anytime soon. I can't think of anything even on the horizon. > Maybe some sort of linear programming code is being proposed. Can > anybody else think of anything?
miniSAT -- I've been using the commandline interface from Sage for a while now, but it would be nice to have that cython interface working. > > The last two packages that we added to Sage -- cliquer and ratpoints > -- both caused a lot of trouble. I will be much more careful in the > future about adding spkg's. > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
