[sage-support] Re: outdated version of Sage in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-04 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Hi On 4 Kvě, 11:56, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello, not related to Sage, but if I remember correctly, newer Maxima > > is in Debian Sid (compiled with GCL). This Sid version is slower than > > 5.13 (with GCL also). > > Do you have any idea why that is and how much slowdown there is? What > specifical

[sage-support] Re: outdated version of Sage in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-04 Thread mabshoff
On May 4, 2:51 am, "ma...@mendelu.cz" wrote: > On 4 Kvě, 11:29, mabshoff > wrote: Hi, > > > > I would suggest you complain in the Maxima group to have them take a > > stake into packaging current Maxima releases for Debian/Ubuntu. AFAIK > > the Maxima maintainer for Debian isn't exactly unde

[sage-support] Re: outdated version of Sage in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-04 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
On 4 Kvě, 11:29, mabshoff wrote: > > I would suggest you complain in the Maxima group to have them take a > stake into packaging current Maxima releases for Debian/Ubuntu. AFAIK > the Maxima maintainer for Debian isn't exactly underworked, so I am > sure he could use some help. > Hello, not r

[sage-support] Re: outdated version of Sage in Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05-04 Thread mabshoff
On May 4, 2:16 am, chand sarat wrote: > Dear All, Hi, > It is a fact that for a number of scientific packages, Ubuntu does offer > fairly outdated packages: > 1. Current Sage package: 3.4.1 and the version offered by Ubuntu 9.04 is > Sage 3.0.5. Help is on the way: Debian experimental should