Hi Burcin and Francois, Yes, I'd be willing to use an existing linux package manager rather than the spkg system, particularly if sage were on a path to the same system. I think it's important to support the 'ecosystem' sage has built.
The problem of system and vendor supplied compilers and libraries really seems to be a tough one. We have generally been willing to trade performance for portability, but we need to move beyond that. We really need to do things like compile parts of our toolchain with intel or pgi and link to gotoblas, and other optimized math libraries. I don't actually use cmake for anything but paraview and vtk, and I'm not wedded to it. We use a combination of make and python. The problem is that it works for us and only for us. I had hoped that a python build system would take off, but I'm not aware of one that approaches the cmake user community yet for HPC systems. If you are willing, it would be great if the two of you could do a post at the "roundtable" that Dag Sverre Seljebotn started to focus some of these discussions. Someone was going to post the link on sage-dev, but I'm including it below in case you haven't seen it. I will try to get my "system" (such as it is) described on there, but it would be good to have your gentoo prefix system described since it applies to sage: http://fixingscientificsoftwaredistribution.blogspot.com/ Warm Regards, Chris -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
