On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > 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 Or are those out of date now?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?
Latex used to be a lot more important in Sage than it is now. E.g., it used to be required to build *any* documentation, but now it isn't reuqired (since we have jsmath). Latex is only really used for building pdf docs and for %latex mode in the notebook. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
