2009/4/23 Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu>: > > I'd like to add as a goal that Sage 4.0 works with versions of its > dependencies available from the relevant upstreams. > > For context, I would very much like to be able to package Sage 4.0 for > Debian once it comes out, since I find the current state of having Sage > 3.0.5 from last July to be somewhat embarrassing. However, updating Sage > in Debian is really difficult because most Sage releases use a version of > at least one of its dependencies that could not reasonably be packaged for > use both in Sage and outside of Sage. This has been a problem both for my > efforts and for the people working on making Sage available in Fedora.
Tim, would it make sense to have a small "sage-source" debian package which depends on the (few) build tools required to build debian and which upon installation downloads sage, compiles it, and places it in a (debian specific) standard place in the system? Alternatively, the package actually comes with the full source code (better for places with apt caches or debian mirrors). I recall once upon a time there was a (similar idea) debian package for netscape, which would actually download it from netscape website and install it. Best, Gonzalo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
