If a user does not already have python3 installed on their system, this proposal would make installing python3 a prerequisite for installing Sage right? Is that something that we want to make users do? On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 9:29:27 AM UTC-5 dim...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM Emmanuel Charpentier > <emanuel.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Wouldn't that entail to have to maintain support for a wider selection > of Python versions ? > > Not bigger than at present. > > > > > Le lundi 31 mars 2025 à 05:05:51 UTC+2, dim...@gmail.com a écrit : > >> > >> I propose to remove python3 (and sqlite - which has no other consumers) > >> from the list of Sage spkgs (packages). > >> Anno 2025 one has sufficiently many non-Sage ways to make sure a good > >> enough python3 is available for use with Sage. > >> > >> We constantly see support cases where users start installing Sage, and > >> end up running into errors installing Sage's python3. In particular, > >> this happens when they try installing a stable version of Sage, which > >> is too old for the rapid changes happening in macOS (just today > >> 2025-03-30, we had such a case). One less footgun will only be good. > >> > >> Dima > > > > -- > > 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+...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/a304f598-db0d-424b-a481-ff885f977487n%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/015aad5d-403a-4fc3-a4fb-885324664e0fn%40googlegroups.com.
