> Perhaps. Please help us make Sage more mature in > this regard. I'm working on it with small pieces when I can ;-) (cf zlib prob reports)
> I do not see Sage that way. I see Sage as being like a monolithic program > such as Magma, vmware, Parallels, etc. It is very similar in size to those > programs -- e.g., the lines of code of Magma is not far off from that of Sage. I see Sage as Sage + 75(?) other open source programs :-) And I see efforts to modularize Sage to incorporate it into the common distributions, which I think is a great goal and I'll try to help. > No. I am against strongly encouraging people to use "sage -upgrade" > if they installed Sage from a binary. That's it. If they build from source, > then they clearly have the appropriate build tool chain in place. Ok sorry now I understand better. But I also second Robert Bradshaw: -upgrade on built-from-source will bring new source and compile it. -upgrade on binary should have exactly the same mechanism to bring new binaries which therefore would be made available separately as today the .spkg are available per component. If I compare with Linux distributions (sorry, I like this comparison) you've today "sage -upgrade" on sources in the same way Gentoo is providing "emerge -uD world", upgrading only the new components by compiling them from sources. What could be added is the same as all the other Linux distributions: a binary upgrade (cf "apt-get upgrade" etc). > I'm very glad build-from-source worked from you. I and others put a huge > amount of effort into making that possible. I'm happy of your work, initially a bit frustrated when the binary version didn't work (quite obscure error -> Googling -> ok apparently some host library versions incompatible -> compiling from source) But then I was amazed to have compiled this huge amount of code for hours without running into any error, WAW! This is something I very rarely experienced ;-) Phil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
