#6781: Library access to ecl
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Reporter: nbruin | Owner: nbruin
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.4
Component: packages | Keywords:
Author: Nils Bruin | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Burcin Erocal, Karl-Dieter Crisman | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:22 burcin]:
Many thanks for this interface again!
>
> BTW, I don't see why this needs to be tested on Solaris. (In any case,
expecting every developer to test their patches on solaris is
unreasonable, IMHO.)
That might be your opinion, but I suggest you take that up with William.
Quoting from the Sage developer's guide.
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/inclusion.html
''Some Sage developers are willing to help you port to OS X, Solaris and
Windows. But this is no guarantee and you or your project are expected to
do the heavy lifting and also support those ports upstream if there is no
Sage developer who is willing to share the burden.''
From the Sage installation guide
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html
''We do plan to fully support Solaris - it’s a very important platform.
Work is ongoing.''
William has taken hardware (specifically 't2') from Sun for Sage
development, as well as an !OpenSolaris machine from elsewhere. He also
sent me an email on the 16th December 2009, underlying the importance of
getting Sage working on Solaris
{{{
David,
(1) I couldn't get anywhere building Sage on x86 Solaris on skynet
(fulvia). Can you? This was pretty annoying to the people that bought us
fulvia.
(2) Sun wants to know if we have a Sage available yet for t2. See below.
I really need to shift into the mode of actually providing something that
*works* on Solaris, despite hickups, rather than just polishing
foundations...
}}}
As such, I do not believe it is unreasonable that the packages are tested
on Solaris. If Solaris is important, and the current version of this
package works on Solaris, a failure to work on Solaris would be a reason
for the changes not to be incorporated.
Dave
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