On 10 January 2024 20:29:28 GMT, Edgar Costa <edgardiasco...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect it's due to the latter used to Sage the distro as a "missing
>> macOS
>> package manager".
>> So they are happy adding more and more spkgs to Sage.
>> And Linux users rightly see adding to Sage spkgs, which
>> package software available on their systems in a regular way,
>> as a bloat, which moreover needs constant attention -
>> while sagelib suffers.
>>
>
>macOS has several unofficial package managers.
>In particular, homebrew makes it very easy for anyone to add a formula,
>which is very similar to the way that spkg works.
>
indeed, and I even experimented with writing such formulae, e.g. for flint.
https://github.com/sagemath/homebrew-science
When it was discussed whether we wanted to use it, the main objection was that
it needs root (once, explicitly, to set up, then implicitly), thus unsafe.
Conda was mentioned as a better option. But Conda is much bigger.
We do have a setup to use Homebrew.
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