On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >>> 2) You are attempting to build Sage on HP-UX. While there are no plans >>> to support HP-UX, if you want to port Sage to HP-UX, the Sage community >>> would appreciate that, and give you what support they can. Any patches >>> you are able to submit would probably be accepted, as long as they don't >>> break builds on the supported operating systems. >>> >> >> +1. Definitely encourage them. We've seen from porting efforts (like >> yours!) that porting code almost always finds bugs that affect everyone. >> >> I would even suggest more encouraging wording, like: >> >> You are attempting to build Sage on HP-UX, which is not a supported >> platform for Sage yet. Things may or may not work. If you would like >> to help port Sage to HP-UX, email the sage-devel mailing list. The Sage >> community would also appreciate any patches you submit. >> >> In reality, even if someone did not port Sage fully to a platform, we'd >> probably accept any bugfixes/patches towards that! I think it's a given >> that Sage must work on the supported platforms, so we don't need to say >> that. >> >> I also think we ought to encourage them as much as possible and as early >> as possible to seek advice on sage-devel, rather than possibly turn them >> away. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason > > > We obviously share the same view there Jason. > > Is there anyone else who agrees or disagrees with putting messages to > encourage those trying Sage on other OS's?
I strongly encourage making all messages related to Sage strongly encouraging! William > Or would they change Jason's > wording? (I think it needs a link to the sage-devel google group, but > otherwise I'm happy with Jason's suggestion. > > Dave > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
