On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM chris wuthrich <christian.wuthr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Would that mean that users (like me) will have to downgrade python provided > by their distribution at times - or to learn how to use multiple version of > python?
Using multiple versions of python is not a dark art. You install it with your package manager, e.g. you might have python3 being python3.11, and you also have python3.12, and python3.13. Sage does not insist on using the default (python3), it can use, say, python3.12, just as well. You can actually pass a specific python3 to ./configure. Yes, this would potentially mean to install one more external package. No big deal, we already ask for a number of these anyway. > Maybe documentation of what is recommended for this would be necessary. In > general, it could make sage less accessible to a mathematician who uses only > sage, maybe only through the notebook, never python otherwise. I am not > against it, but it may need some caution, not to increase the barrier to use > sage for the non-developers. Sure, a bit more docs would be added in this regard. Sage is the only python-based maths software system out there (I don't count things like conda or linuxbrew) which tries to bundle its own Python. There are many much more popular than Sage systems, such as scipy, sympy, etc., which don't do this, and are doing just fine. (they don't try to vendor everything that's useful, and can concentrate on the core strength, while we waste time and resourses on vendoring python, jupyter, sphinx, etc etc) Dima > > Chris > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/71d713db-ee03-42db-acb8-258c785c4294n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq2Djv2f1k-T2ee5vawyW8eByqUHUhC21H4kDvNg_shwOA%40mail.gmail.com.
