On Oct 4, 2009, at 12:22 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> >> I commented once on here before that I have used an old Sun Ultra >> 80 as >> heater in the garage in the winter to stop the water freezing. >> >> Well this Winter I'm going to use an HP Visualize C3600 machine as my >> source of heat, though if that is insufficient I have an IBM >> server too. >> >> The HP box runs HP-UX 11, so I'll try to build Sage on HP-UX over the >> winter. I bought the machine into the house yesterday and are >> going to >> reload the OS, set up the networking so it works with my current >> network >> (I think its on the wrong subnet). >> >> I might try a quick build of Sage, but don't intend doing much >> with it >> now. But over the winter, I'll make some effort at building Sage >> on HP-UX. >> >> Hence could HP-UX be added. >> >> It could be useful to add AIX too. Once >> >> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7021 >> >> is reviewed (and I see William has just changed this to 'blocker' for >> 4.1.2) attempts to build on other Unix systems with other >> compilers wont >> immediately result in failure. >> >> HP-UX and AIX are both sold today, and both used on modern systems. >> > > My one concern about adding hpux and aix as components on track is > that we don't have "linux" or "osx" or "cygwin" as components. The > *only* OS that has a component is Solaris. There are already a lot > of components... > > Thoughts?
There is a "cygwin," and a "freebsd" and "msvc" and "debian-package." I think, however, that there's too many components in general. Maybe there should just be a "porting" component? - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
