I have written the two people I could find who might care about Sage on linux ppc and invited them to respond here, or I will summarize or forward any direct response.
On Sep 29, 1:02 pm, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wasn't asking for a majority vote. I'm wondering if _anyone_ still > cares about sage on linux PPC. We don't provide binaries for linux > PPC, and I can't remember it happening in the past. > > Searching sage-support I can find questions from two people (Bin Zhang > and Douglas Mencken) about that platform. The latest one is from > February, so perhaps there are some users. But at what percentage is > it worth stalling development? I am sure answers to that will vary. > > -Marshall > > On Sep 29, 12:54 pm, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > > > Jason Grout wrote: > > > On 09/29/2010 08:01 AM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > >> It looks like it might be a while before this is fixed by numpy: > > > >>http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1403 > > > >> Given the importance of numpy to Sage, I think it might make sense to > > >> drop support for PPC linux. On the positive side: > > > >> 1) There are considerable improvements to numpy and scipy in the > > >> latest version that some of our developers and users are interested in > > >> (not to mention bugfixes). > > > >> 2) We need the latest scipy& numpy to be able to upgrade the python > > >> version in Sage. I don't think it makes sense to freeze our version > > >> of python. Also there are many interesting improvements to python in > > >> the 2.7 series, which will be the last 2.x version. > > > IIRC the same had been said for 2.6... ;-) > > > >> The downsides of dropping support for a platform are obvious, but I > > >> really wonder how many people are running Sage on linux PPC. > > > > Let's put out a query on sage-devel and sage-support. > > > Yep, but dropping a platform should IMHO not depend on the opinion of > > some majority (which I expect such will have). > > > It would be better to convince the numpy developers to fix this upstream. > > > Btw, regarding bugs, the current numpy version in Sage is > > numpy-1.3.0.p4, i.e. a "dot zero" upstream version. > > > -Leif > > > > Harald, are there > > > any stats for the binaries for PPC? > > > > Jason > > -- 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
