Gentoo Archives: gentoo-science

From: "François Bissey" <f.r.bissey@×××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] sage status
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:32:17
Message-Id: 201004261732.02742.f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] sage status by Thomas Kahle
1 > For those of us living in x86, is it save to use python-2.6.4-r99 as the
2 > system python??
3 > I'm slightly worried to use a sage-patched python on global scale...
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5 Hi Thomas.
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7 I am on x86 and I have been using it on my system for as long as I have
8 put it in the overlay.
9 The patch really concern 3 files (including a test file) in the whole of
10 python. It shouldn't really have any side effects as it brings more
11 functionality to python without removing anything.
12 I am not even sure who/what use pickling apart from sage.
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14 Francois