On May 20, 10:00 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Mark V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - shipping MPI itself (a dependency) would significantly complicate > > Sage so use of MPI packages is currently optional. > > True. Also there has been no demand at all for us to include MPI. > It's very easy to install as an optional package, and if one is rolling > out Sage for their own use, just install that optional package, build > a binary (which will contain it) using ./sage -bdist, and you're good > to go. >
Having played with MPI as an optional package for SAGE, I can't see how demanding the inclusion of it from the developers would make much of a difference - it's already easy enough to add onto the distribution that it doesn't feel that disjoint. -- Mikael Vejdemo Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
