2009/10/23 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>: >> There are many things that are checked in configure scripts, but I >> do not know >> what are actually needed. Does Sage need 'yacc' or 'bison' for >> example? If I >> knew it did, then I could add a test for that early on, to save >> someone the >> trouble of spending hours building Sage, only to find they need >> something which >> we could have checked for earlier. >> >> I would imagine producing a list of what libraries and programs are >> needed for >> every Sage package would be a very daunting task. If each developer >> agreed to >> document exactly what one package needed, then it would be possible. >> For for any >> single person to do so for 100+ packages would be too much to ask. I >> certainly >> would not wish to do that. > > You mean like the list of dependancies at > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html > or http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/src/README.txt ? One of the goals > of Sage is to have very few dependancies. Or are those out of date now? > > - Robert
I note from there: "latex -- highly recommended, though not strictly required" Should a warning be issued if latex is not installed? Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
