SIGs/SciTech/SAGE

This is to help document the process to get SAGE ([1] ), the open-source computer algebra/mathematics framework into Fedora.

People interested helping in packaging/reviewing:

RexDieter
AlexLancaster
ManuelWolfshant
KevinKofler
NealBecker
...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:

[2]

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:

package required build-time dependencies
package required run-time dependencies
package as many optional build-time dependencies as possible
package SAGE itself
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)

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