On 21 August 2024 16:03:02 BST, Marc Culler <marc.cul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 8:22:35 PM UTC-5 Kwankyu Lee wrote:
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> 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's only if you are on a bad platform to begin with.
On Gentoo Linux, just do
emerge sagemath-standard
and it will be built from source (as is normal for Gentoo packages) :-)
On other platforms with most of the dependencies available, it should not be
much harder than building scipy from source. It currently is tricky, but this
is entirely our fault.
Dima
>* 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
>
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