Le samedi 20 avril 2013 17:42:45 UTC+2, leif a écrit : > > William Stein wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:33 AM, leif <not.r...@online.de <javascript:> > > <mailto:not.r...@online.de <javascript:>>> wrote: > > > > Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > > > On 04/20/2013 12:14 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: > > > > Le 20/04/2013 10:29, Jeroen Demeyer a �crit : > > > > I propose to complete remove the page > > http://www.sagemath.org/__download-solaris.html > > <http://www.sagemath.org/download-solaris.html> > > since one might conclude that Sage versions laters than > > Sage 4.7 don't > > support Solaris, which is completely false. > > > > What is true is that there are no *binaries* made for > > Solaris. Given the > > small number of Solaris users and given the slowness of > > our Solaris > > machine, I see not much point in making such binaries. > > > > > > How slow do you mean? It takes me two days to build a bdist > > for sage... > > > > That's pretty slow, isn't it? Perhaps the Skynet machine can do > > it in > > one day, but still, I doubt the usefulness. > > > > > > People promised a couple of times (last time early this year IIRC) > > that t2 (i.e., a SPARC) will come back... > > > > > > t2 will definitely *not* be coming back. > > Ok. I think those running Solaris SPARC machines are rather unlikely to > use pre-built [Sage] binaries anyway. > > I would probably keep the directory / page though, with just a README > explaining that we still (intend to) support Solaris on x86 and SPARC > (and regularly test on these platforms), but simply do no longer offer > binary distributions of Sage for these. > > And we should probably do the same for Cygwin, unless someone wants to provide build/patch bots.
> > -leif > > > > For x86[_64], we may ask Dave whether he would want us to build > > binaries on hawk. > > > > > > -leif > > -- > () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign > /\ Help Cure HTML E-Mail > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
