#8195: Problems with the 'download' page on the Sage web site.
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: schilly
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: website/wiki | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
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I believe there are several problems on the downloads page:
http://www.sagemath.org/download.html
This is particularity important now, as I want to put an announcement on
compu.unix.solaris about Sage on Solaris, but there is no point until the
web pages are more accurate.
== Download and Media ==
* It says the current release is 4.3.1, yet there is no mention of the
fact that for Solaris, the latest is 4.3.0.1. I think this is pretty
important to have prominently, so a Solaris user does not download 4.3.1,
which will not work for them. I would suggest adding "Unfortunately, 4.3.1
will not build on any version of Solaris. We are working on fixing these
issues. However, version 4.3.0.1 successfully builds on Solaris 10
(SPARC)"
* Further down (too far down IMHO), it says "Sage 4.3.0.1 is the latest
version that successfully builds on the Sun T5240. See the Sage wiki for
build instructions" This has three issues
* Solaris builds on many systems, not just the T5240. In fact, I rarely
build it on that, as it is so slow.
* A lot of Solaris users wont even know what a T5240 is. It is probably
the worst possible sort of machine for scientific users.
* The Wiki page it points to is '''very''' specific for 't2'. Those
instructions will be of no use to anyone with any other Solaris machine,
not even a T5240 unless it is 't2'. I believe there should be a link to
the build instructions for Solaris, which are at
http://wiki.sagemath.org/solaris '''plus''' a note for users with access
to t2.math.washington.edu, that there are very simpled instructions at
http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/Building-Sage-on-the-T5240-t2 specifically
for 't2'. The point is, the instructions at http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel
/Building-Sage-on-the-T5240-t2 are very specific to how 't2' has been
configured. They would not apply to anyone elses T5240, nor any other
Solaris machine. For other Solaris users, the only Solaris page of
interest is http://wiki.sagemath.org/solaris
== DVD ==
The link to Lulu to get a live CD reports a message that the CD is not
available. As such, it should be removed until such time as the DVD
becomes available, which does not look to be any time soon. It has been
broken for months.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8195>
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