Marc, what is your opinion about replacing "building from source" in the Python spkg by "installing the prebuild pythons from astral/python-build-standalone"? Would this work for the MacOS app; and if not why?
Other popular projects, like anki and influxdb, seem to use these builds for their embedded Pythons (https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/8b2a64852b965b5e8fde97aa6f523ff64e061a96/build/ninja_gen/src/python.rs#L31, https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/blob/5d7cb88f87ae1fdf3fb035a8c5002486f105a147/README_processing_engine.md?plain=1#L48-L54). On Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 12:37:06 PM UTC+8 wst...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM Marc Culler <marc....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 9:57:50 PM UTC-5 Dima wrote: > > > > this is what many users need - to be able to install Sage into an > existing Python environment; thus support is provided for a range of > pythons. > > > > > > That is what I said in my last message. There is no need to repeat it > back to me. > > > > > > Catering for the upside-down setup where Sage installs Python is a > totally orthogonal user case, and you seem to be the only user who doesn't > want to give it up. > > > > > > There were 34985 downloads of the two disk images for SageMath-10.5 > which were created on 2024/12/04. There have been 2288 downloads of the two > disk images for SageMath-10.6 since they were created four days ago on > 2025/04/08. But you are unable to treat those people as being real Sage > users. I had hoped that your unpleasant attitude was not a reflection of > how the Sage project as a whole views those users. But maybe it is. > > > > Marc, Your response seems to suggest that Dima is claiming that your > distribution of Sage is wrong or shouldn't exist. Nothing could be > further from the truth. We all very, very much want these Mac Sage > distributions to exist. The point is just that the creator of the > Mac Sage app is responsible for deciding on what Python to include, > rather than the Sage project itself. > > -- William > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- 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/1dceb93e-824d-49a4-a91e-479c7eae682an%40googlegroups.com.
