2011/3/9 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <[email protected]>: > 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...
Perhaps Sage doesn't fit well into major distributions because it is itself a distribution, and teasing out all the pieces into separate packages is a lot of work for little return (especially compared to some of the other things we could be working on). I'd love for "apt-get install sage" to just work, but kind-of working is much worse than having to download the binaries or unpacking the sources and typing "make." Everyone has their own itch to scratch though. > 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. That may be an interesting set of criteria to judge a (relatively) new open source project, but by the time a project has 5+ years of history with a large developer and user community I'd say it makes more sense to judge a project's potential based on its history rather than its technical details. - Robert -- 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
