On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 12:46 PM Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > As strictly an end-user of Sage, and only on macOS, I find the prospect of > not being able to download a binary (not even from > https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases) repellent. And providing, > only a Docker image instead, equally repellent. The probability is large that > I would abandon Sage if binaries were not available.
I was also really disturbed when I saw the subject of this post. However, upon closer inspection, I suspect that the subject "Proposal: Stop providing binary distributions" of this thread requires clarification. The actual proposal at the trac ticket is "Installation manual: Remove mention of Sage-mirror-hosted binary distributions", and to instead explicitly point to several (often better) sources of binary distributions. For example, https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases is NOT a "sage-mirror-hosted binary distribution". I think what the 3-manifolds people provide is exactly the sort of third party binary distribution of Sage that Matthias is proposing to *better* advertise, highlight and emphasize in the Sage docs. Matthias, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you proposing that we just a better job at pointing users to binary distributions of Sage such as https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases, conda-forge, and of course any packaging of Sage for Linux distros, etc., instead of pointing them at binaries that don't work? Instead of "Proposal: Stop providing binary distributions" maybe your proposal is: "Proposal: Group X will stop providing binary distributions, and instead much more strongly encourage and advertise the work of groups Y, Z, etc... to provide binary distributions" ? This is all about just acknowledging limits and spreading the workload more broadly, and also doing a better job at encouraging users toward the fantastic work of https://github.com/3-manifolds/Sage_macOS/releases, the conda project, gentoo, etc... > On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 5:41:58 PM UTC-5 emanuel.c...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Mixed feelings... See my comments on the ticket. >> >> Le samedi 8 janvier 2022 à 20:10:15 UTC+1, Matthias Koeppe a écrit : >>> >>> Comments/review please in https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33131 >>> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/0e002507-d296-49c5-a726-ef1c22b8627fn%40googlegroups.com. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CACLE5GDm-hgQ%3D4%2Bgr12RmQxXQoe9RRE5chnDdYpf3PVQHUJz9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
