This may be of interest https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_tell_if_a_FLOSS_project_is_doomed_to_FAIL
and should explain why sage is not included and/or built from sources in any major distro. Well, I make rpms for Mandriva, and there is the gentoo port... My last work on a sagemath 4.6.2 rpm ended with these main issues: o I am still preferring to use system python. But making sage build/work with python 2.7.1 has pitfalls as sage expects python 2.6 o Cannot build with with cython 0.14, so the does a cython 0.13 build and puts it in the path first, and also installs a cython binary in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin and runtime at $PYTHONPATH o Since sagemath 4.6.1, there are crashes at exit. I reworked a good share of dependencies, but it still fails. glibc/valgrind shows a double mpz_clear call when python exits, so, I now set MALLOC_CHECK_=1 so that it usually should just print a warning about double free, instead of aborting at exit. BTW, I tried to be impartial, but still accounted sage at 280 points. Friendly, Paulo -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
