On Mar 5, 8:35 pm, François Bissey <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: > > Earlier there was some discussion of creating an environmental > > variable that would attempt to build sage with system versions of the > > libraries and other dependencies, rather than the versions shipped > > with sage. Did anything come of that? > > Nothing came out of that, but it would be useful to us packagers. > There are things to carefully consider. > Time as always is the biggest obstacle to anything like that. > > Francois
+1 to more consideration, although I don't have much to contribute. One thing I do think is that if sage is packaged for distributions, the target audience for those binaries is probably not the people who are doing cutting-edge mathematical research. So if a dependency has a bug, certainly the patch should try to go upstream ASAP, but a lot of people in the target audience wouldn't be affected by that bug, even though for some people the bug breaks a needed feature or possibly produces wrong results. If people are doing really important stuff, then they can get the latest sage from sage's website. Ben -- 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
