On Feb 5, 2008 10:31 AM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I like this idea...I think this creates a larger gap > between developers and users.
True. I'm not a fan of such a gap, since I want every single user to be a developer. > It's a lot easier than downloading and unpacking too. When it works. When it doesn't work it often leaves people with a hosed system, which is not a good experience for users. > I would propose that if the original install was a binary install, > and nothing has been changed, How do we tell that nothing has changed? > then the -upgrade command will download > the (same architecture) binary .tar, and unpack it overwriting the > current install (perhaps not all at once so an interruption won't > cause corruption. I'm having trouble seeing how that is any better than the user just downloading a separate package and extracting it. In fact it seems worse since there is a potential for corruption, etc. > Eventually we could use rsync (or even provide > binary diffs to several of the recent versions) to reduce bandwidth > costs. The above suggestion could perhaps work pretty well for binary installs. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
