On Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 8:22:35 PM UTC-5 Kwankyu Lee wrote: it is not a bad idea for a non-developer user to install sage from source.
I disagree. It *is* a bad idea, for so many reasons: * It requires a lot of time and work which is completely unrelated to using Sage. * It will almost certainly fail. * Even if it does succeed, it provides no benefit to a user who only wants to use Sage. But it does have lots of negative side effects, including creating a 10GB subdirectory of the user's home which becomes totally useless if it is moved, and forcing the installation of many packages and, possibly, package managers, which are useless to someone who is not interested in writing code. Even the suggestion that this is a reasonable thing for a "non-developer user" to do adds a huge obstacle to using Sage. On the other hand, I think that distributing pre-built documentation is a good idea. - Marc -- 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/0ed75f80-f95c-4bbf-a0cf-9f874432eb29n%40googlegroups.com.
