Reply With QuoteFactoring source code is open, but sieveing code is not.Also the sieving and factoring client's could probably be included in Gentoo (they alreade have their source code out in the open so that would probably be somewhat easier.
I'm the happy user of gentoo linux and from time to time the idea to add SoB to the portage tree comes to mind.
I think the last SoB client works so well that it's ready for Gentoo.
I think there would be quite a few users to get crunching by making an e-build for portage.
I haven't been looking deeper into it, but I think that it would require a release of the source-code of some form.
Anyways, please comment on this, I'm just waiting for my new laptop to bootstrap from stage-1 and gcc takes a damned long time to compile on a 600 MHz and watching the bash working sometimes gives me weird ideas :-)
Also the sieving and factoring client's could probably be included in Gentoo (they alreade have their source code out in the open so that would probably be somewhat easier.
Factoring source code is open, but sieveing code is not.Also the sieving and factoring client's could probably be included in Gentoo (they alreade have their source code out in the open so that would probably be somewhat easier.
The client source code is not open source right now either.
Source isn't required to make it into portage.
Example: ut2004demo (or most commercial game demos)
thunderbird-bin
openoffice-bin
etc.. Some have source packages available, but some don't. It's not mandatory for portage.
In that case what are we waiting for?
I still haven't come to making e-builds, but there is an HOW-TO.
I would prefer for someone else to do this, but if no one will do it, then I would, in time, figure out how to make these 3 e-builds, SoBprp, Sieve and P-1fact, of course only if the programmers allow it, but I don't see why they should not, I think it could provide a few resources for this project.
GIMPS are already there:
Code:bash-2.05b# emerge -s gimps Searching... [ Results for search key : gimps ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-sci/gimps Latest version available: 23.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 407 kB Homepage: http://mersenne.org/ Description: GIMPS - The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search License: as-is
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