It appears to me that we are seeing a culture clash here. I think what Marc says is correct in regard to mac users, but, for all I know, it may be less (or not at all) true about linux users.
In particular, I am pretty sure that the vast majority of mac users have never built a program from source, and do not know what "homebrew" or "package manager" means. A mac user expects to download either a ready-to-use application or a ".pkg" installer file that just needs to be double-clicked. Many, probably most, are fearful of doing anything at the command line (and don't understand it). As Marc said, expecting the typical mac user to build sage from source is adding a huge obstacle. On Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 2:07:32 PM UTC-4 Marc Culler wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 12:35 PM Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> what if you have a version mismatch between the toolchain used to build >> the shipped binary, >> and XCode you installed locally? I'd expect trouble, in particular with >> C++. >> > > When I tested the %%cython magic command I was running a beta version of > macOS 15 with XCode 16.1 beta, while the SageMath app was built on macOS 14 > with XCode 16.0. The python function that I used was trivial - it just > multiplied the argument by 2.0 and returned the product. But it worked > fine. I don't know if it is possible to force C++ to be used with the > %%cython magic command. > > The C and C++ runtimes are distributed with the operating system, and so > far we have not seen problems arising from users having a different > operating system version from the one used to build the app. > > it's only if you are on a bad platform to begin with. > > > It is not really about which platform(s) I am on, it is about which > platform a Sage user is on. I don't think that telling users that they > chose to install a bad operating system is likely to encourage people to > use Sage. > > -- 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/76aa4a28-41b5-4489-b8fa-e5702b1f167fn%40googlegroups.com.
