Well on top of Burcin's answer and I should add a disclaimer I am working here: http://www.ucsc.canterbury.ac.nz/ as a support person, so I feel for you. I am currently doing installs on power7 hardware from IBM and I want to use a vocabulary that is wholly inappropriate for a public forum to express my feelings.
I am part of both sage and gentoo science community. Prefix is nice but doesn't necessarily cover everything because of lack of man power and access to the hardware. You mention using a mix of compiler and blas/lapack libraries, well we can do that to some extent although the compiler bit may be patchy. You can customize everything to your liking so long as you are ready to invest some time in it. If you send your stuff back to gentoo we can take some of the maintenance burden, however you should remember the problem of hardware access (and if you have proprietary compilers, access to that too). You mention cmake as a build system. Are you thinking of the cmake superbuild system that has touted from time to time on the paraview mailing list? (did I mention that I am also dealing with vtk/paraview.) I am not sure how to deal with your number 4 appropriately, I'll have to study virtualenv. Francois -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
