[gentoo-science] sage status

["François Bissey" <f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz>]

Hi all,

so sage-4.4 is coming soon. If we stick to our plans sage-4.4 will
leave /opt to join other non-binary packages under /usr.
* we have completely split sage... this means we don't rely anymore on 
sage build system in any way.
* thanks to contribution of Steve Trogdon we have identified a number of
issues on amd64 and some with a larger scope.

* for those of you living on ~arch and are getting headaches because
you cannot update python to version 2.6.5, I have committed a patched
python-2.6.5 to the overlay. This is not supported by the sage devs so 
there may be problems.

*Steve found an issue with matplotlib. If you are using matplotlib with gtk
enabled _and_ the proprietary nvidia drivers sage can break.

*two people have come forward with a problem related to the way sage 
is interacting with gap. If you have that kind of problem please tell us
as we would really like to figure out the cause of the problem and the two
cases we have are not enough.

Francois