On Nov 19, 10:31 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Carlo Hamalainen > > <carlo.hamalai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What happens if you type: > > >> sage: !sage-native-execute evincehttp://wiki.sagemath.org/bug18 > > > Evince pops up with no errors. Great :) > > Excellent! > > By the way, regarding this whole thread, I was reading some articles > about the relation between the iPhone and Android phones, and how > Apple controls their platform, whereas Google doesn't, and it occurred > to me that the way we distribute Sage is similar -- we control as much > as we can of the platform, by building the almost the entire stack > from source in a self-contained location. This has a lot of the > same pros and cons that OS X has versus Linux, say.
I'm generally fine with Sage including everything. The only issue comes up when I need to use tools which are common on Ubuntu but which need to execute in the Sage environment. In particular, where I'm getting bitten hard is svn and git. Neither will run with sage's libgnutls. I "almost" had it beat by doing everything without the Sage environment which uses general Ubuntu tools until it came to the Enthought suite's "ets" command... ets calls svn from its python which is installed in sage. I can install svn and git into sage (which isn't that bad) or I can adjust the libraries. That is riksy as the headers can also get out of wack which then becomes a more serious "adjustment" as I should do this prior to building Sage (headers could get outta wack also) So, I get the reasons and I think it works well but this is a problem for me and its gotten a little bit harder with the latest Ubuntu distro. -glenn > > -- 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
