Thanks, that's the page I was expecting. I think it would be a good idea to have that linked more obviously, but I am not able to make a PR right now.
I found a tarball on GitHub on the releases page, so made progress, though as I reported elsewhere I have not yet been able to build sage from it on one machine. John On Wed, 10 Apr 2024, 15:24 julian...@fsfe.org, <julian.ru...@fsfe.org> wrote: > I guess the idea is that further down on this page, you are told to follow > the instructions in the README here > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/#readme which in turn tells you get the > "sources" from here https://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html. > > I agree that this is not terribly intuitive, however, the wikipedia link > was introduced in > > commit 5cddc06a8118d8fb9211fe8232b1183daba9f01f > Date: Tue Mar 29 15:11:07 2011 +0100 > > So it's been there for quite a while but certainly the surroundings have > been modified quite a bit since then. > > If you want to create a PR to change that link, I am happy to give it > positive review. > > julian > > On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 11:56:23 AM UTC+3 John Cremona wrote: > >> In the first line of >> https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#sec-installation-from-sources >> the words "source code" are a link to the wikipedia page for "source code", >> which is not very helpful. I was expecting it to be a link to page shoing >> where to download a tarball. I sometimes use the tarball to install from >> source, instead of using a git clone -- I assume that has not been >> discontinued? >> >> John >> > -- > 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/52db9220-62b4-4fc5-ac5a-f77bd040a9b7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/52db9220-62b4-4fc5-ac5a-f77bd040a9b7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAD0p0K7mnkbqT6MDtLyUZA8sCQ_aOaS2pQaOzXerJqeKxW-4AA%40mail.gmail.com.
