SIGs/SciTech/SAGE

This is to help document the process to get SAGE (http://sagemath.org/), the open-source computer algebra/mathematics framework into Fedora.

People interested helping in packaging/reviewing:

• Rex Dieter
• Alex Lancaster
• Manuel Wolfshant
• Kevin Kofler
• Neal Becker
• Conrad Meyer
• ...add your name here...

Cross-distribution efforts:

• Debian: http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE
• PcLinuxOS: http://www.mypclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=1509.msg13532#msg13532

On fedora-devel KevinKofler points out that:

One problem will be that they're bundling many third-party components which should
be packaged separately:

http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/inst/intro.html

So the first step is to track down which of these dependencies are in Fedora
already, whether they need any patches to work with SAGE, whether they are
build-time (BuildRequires) dependencies, run-time (Requires) dependencies or
both, whether they're required or optional and package those which are not in
Fedora yet.

He suggests the following order:

1. package required build-time dependencies
2. package required run-time dependencies
3. package as many optional build-time dependencies as possible
4. package SAGE itself
5. package optional run-time dependencies (and decide on a case by case basis whether it makes sense to add them as actual Requires: dependencies to the package or not)

Required components that SAGE ships with: http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/

Optional components that SAGE ships with: http://sagemath.org/packages/optional/

(a manual list with descriptions which may vary somewhat with respect to the above is at http://sagemath.org/links-components.html) (See also: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days6/sprint/debian)

Missing required components

(If you are working on packaging a component or have filed a review request bug, please note it or link to something here.)

• Cddlib Review Request
• CVXOPT Review Request
• Flint Poorly packaged upstream, will be a challenge to do correctly
• FpLLL Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• G95 Do we need this, or will gcc-gfortran's FORTRAN 95 support do? (Or are they even different?)
• GAP This is large (they claim you need 500M of disk)
• Genus2reduction Wants this
• Gfan
• Givaro
• GMP-ECM
• JsMath
• IML Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• Lcalc
• Linbox
• M4RI Review Request
• MPFI Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• EClib
• NetworkX
• PALP
• PolyBoRi
• PyCrypto
• Qd Review Request
• Singular
• Sympow
• Symmetrica This will be a challenge because upstream didn't really design it to be distributed at all.
• Sympy Review Request Completed, in Fedora
• Weave Already in scipy.
• ZODB