On Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 12:56:30 AM UTC-7 Martin R wrote: do I understand correctly that common lisp (via maxima) is the main dependency that prevents sagemath from being pip-installable?
No. For one, SageMath is already pip-installable. That was one of the first deliverables of the modularization project, completed in 2021. See https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.4#Alternative_installation_methods_using_pip It's documented in our README: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/develop/README.md#alternative-installation-using-pypi However, installing Sage in this way is equivalent to installing the full Sage distribution from source in the normal way. (This is what https://pypi.org/project/sage-conf/ does.) It takes very long. This alone makes it simply not suitable as a dependency of other pip-installable projects. In another message, you asked: > 1.) Is there an example for someone who did not want to use sage because of some dependency of the math library? Or at least a possible reason? [...] But this begs the question: who profits from cutting the math library into pieces (which look very arbitrary to me and have a curious emphasis on discrete math topics)? If you do allow me another example from discrete math: Sage has a lot of very good code in "sage.graphs" that provides functionality that is not available from other Python libraries. But to potential projects that would need this functionality, the proposition to have to depend on the monolithic project SageMath, with hours of compilation time and/or dependencies on system packages that are obviously unrelated to the needed functionality (boost, brial, ecl, eclib, ecm, fflas_ffpack, flint, libgd, gap, giac, givaro, glpk, gmp, gsl, iml, lcalc, libbraiding, libhomfly, libpng, linbox, m4ri, m4rie, mpc, mpfi, mpfr, ntl, pari, rw, singular, symmetrica), is simply a showstopper. -- 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/a1953072-cc5a-435b-baaa-2cd7be167801n%40googlegroups.com.
