Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
I can see your point. At the moment, there is no effort at all to
support any operating system that does not Sun or GNU compilers. i.e.
nobody is making any effort at all to support HP-UX, AIX, tru64 etc.
A shame! I certainly make sure that all of these are supported by my
own software. Other than gaining access to a system, it is not
particularly difficult for well designed software.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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I agree. I've had one of my own programs http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ on
a large range of platforms. To quote from the web page:
"In addition to the the commmon Linux PC, atlc has been tested on a Sony
Playstation 2 as well as the Cray YMP-EL supercomputer, which is
available for free public access at Cray-Cyber network. It has also been
tested on Debian Linux, Slackware Linux, Gentoo Linux, Redhat Linux,
Suse Linux, IBM's AIX, Apples's OS X for Mac, HP's HP-UX (both PA-RISC
and Itanium), SGI's IRIX, Sun's Solaris, SCO's UNIXWare, HP's Tru64,
Cray's UNICOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD."
However, unless there is someone with access to an HP-UX box, and is
interested in helping develop Sage on HP-UX, it is just not going to
happen. I have machines at home capable of running Solaris (both SPARC
and x86), tru64, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX. But I've no inclination to use any
of the other operating systems - for one the machines are too old.
The problem is, if we started from scratch, I'm sure with an eye to
portability, we could have made Sage very portable. But making use of
existing software means you are reliant on what others have done before
you. Given there is probably a hundred plus man-years gone into the
development of the software Sage uses, it's not practical to rewrite
everything from scratch.
I'd love to see a port to HP-UX, where I know at least one person is
interested in Mathematical software, but the userbase is not large.
Wolfram Research gave up development on AIX and IRIX many years ago, and
HP-UX more recently.
dave
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