On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:35 AM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote: [...] > I am not sure what you refer to, but we either aren't taking about the > same thing or there is some misunderstanding.
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/a8d89440bdff814b/ > > What I would like to see is the possibility to say assemble Sage from > some large repo of spkgs and automagically all the dependencies would > be put together in a tarball since each spkg would have a file > describing its dependencies. This would also make it easier to do > custom Sage distributions with additional bits, i.e. FE software, > optimization and on and on since IMHO the size of Sage is unlikely to > grow much beyond what we currently have. I actually want to shrink > what is current in Sage sizewise and have a more manageable core, but > I am sure this is controversial enough not to disclose any detailed > plans I have ;) > > At the same time you want an SPD distribution with numerical bits, > Fortran, the notebook and your own custom code, but not the Sage > library and a whole bunch of "abstract mathematical stuff", so if all > this could be done from the same set of spkgs (probably coming from > multiple repos, i.e. some from Sage core, some from your end, etc) I > think this would be something worth doing. And if it ran on Linux, > OSX, Solaris and Windows I am sure we will have a winner. Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind in my post in the above link. It doesn't have to be something sophisticated, just something so that it just works (with custom packages) when you do make. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
