Hi Ralf, On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Ralf Hemmecke<r...@hemmecke.de> wrote:
<SNIP> > 2) On the download page I would have expected to see posted a few > differences of the binary and the source distribution of sage. > The design with 'sage -f' and your hint of how I can recompile is great, > but without asking I would certainly have downloaded the complete source > distribution and recompiled from scratch. That's certainly a waste > bandwidth and time. > So I would suggest to add a few lines to the download pages and > explaining to people for which purposes they would need the source > distribution and when a binary distribution is certainly enough even for > development. > > As for 2) maybe I haven't looked carefully enough and this information > is actually there, but consider me as a person who just wants to try our > sage and maybe later add a few things to sage myself. I have the choice > between a source and a binary distribution. And I would certainly choose > the source one, since I would think that the binary distribution doesn't > let me change Sage (or at least the parts I am interested in). The > source distribution is certainly not wrong, but maybe I get more than I > actually need and waste bandwidth and compilation time. > Do you see the dilemma? The Sage wiki now has a guide on downloading Sage. See http://wiki.sagemath.org/DownloadGuide That page will be linked to from all download pages, even those download pages from mirrors around the world. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
