On Nov 30, 3:49 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:43 PM, mabshoff
<SNIP>
> > In light of all of this, i.e. the names of binaries on sagemath.org
> > are inconsistent I would suggest we either add an option to create
> > binaries with canonical names (i.e. using lsb_release on Linux and
> > some uname magic on OSX for example) or do that per default for -
> > bdist. I.e. on an x86 Fedora Core 9 system a
>
> > ./sage -bdist 3.2.1
>
> > would yield
>
> > sage-3.2.1-Fedora-9-x86.tar.gz
>
> > This info can be extracted on Linux via lsb_release
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ lsb_release -i -s
> > Fedora
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ lsb_release -r -s
> > 9
>
> > If that doesn't exist we could fall back to uname or not add anything
> > to the name.
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> Great idea. Make it so! :-)
#4666
> Seriously, the only reason this isn't already done is that nobody got
> around to writing it.
I have too many ideas to implement and too little time to make it so :
(
> William
Cheers,
Michael
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