List "supported platforms" accurately and in a single place #9487
Description
As has been noted several times before, the list of "supported platforms" for Sage varies depending on what particular file/web-page you read. Different sources which include a list of supported platforms include:
- README.txt
- http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html
- http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms
A proposal of mine is at
http://wiki.sagemath.org/suggested-for-supported-platforms
which is based on the method used by Mathworks for MATLAB in their list of System Requirements for Linux. Mathworks break "supported" into two lists.
- List systems which MATLAB is tested on, and so they can give good support. (In this case, exact version numbers are listed e.g. Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, and 9.10)
- List systems on which MATLAB should work, but which they don't test.
I generalised that to four for Sage,
- Fully supported (Sage is always tested on every system in this list before a release is made)
- Expected to work
- Probably will not work, but porting is ongoing
- Will not work and porting will require substantial effort
The first two are basically the same as Mathworks use. The last two are applicable to Sage, but not for a closed source system like MATLAB.
It would be good if the list could be maintained in such a way that there are not several different sources giving a different list of "supported" systems.
Dave
CC: @jhpalmieri @rlmill @sagetrac-mariah @sagetrac-GeorgSWeber @peterjeremy @nexttime @mkoeppe @slel
Component: documentation
Keywords: sd32
Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/9487