On 29 September 2010 22:29, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Both people wrote back - one is no longer using Sage on linux ppc, the > other one is. > > My guess would be that there are fewer than 10 people using Sage on > linux ppc. I think there are more people who would be glad to have > updated numpy, scipy, and python versions. Overall my personal > feeling is that its worthwhile to include the update from 9808 now, > and if the problems in numpy with ppc get fixed we should update as > soon as possible after that to try to restore linuc ppc > functionality. > > Otherwise maybe we could have this update be an optional spkg.
You may be right about 10 people - I've no idea of the number. But like Leif, I think that other platforms provide a useful test when problems are found. The more unusual operating systems ard platforms tend to highlight bugs, which lie in wait to hit anyone, but are true bugs. As someone who took a fairly major role in porting Sage to a different opreating systems (Solaris( and a different processor (SPARC), I'm somewhat puzzled why PPC should be presenting a particular problem. I've even built quite large parts of Sage under AIX on PPC. But AIX is a very different system to Linux, so the Linux issues should not be hard to solve. As there are bug report on the numpy/scipy site I can look at? I''ve little intension myself of running Linux on PPC, but I would not like to see the platform dropped, since 20+ years of software development have taught me that these rarer platforms often show real bugs, that can hit anyone at a later date. Perhaps even this PPC "bug" is just a bug that could hit any processor, but has to date only shown up on PPC. Dave -- 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
