On 26 Mai, 20:46, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 11:43 AM, leif wrote: > > > On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> > > wrote: > >> On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: > >>> In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main > >>> tarball/ > >>> made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if you > >>> really need them. > > >> One of the points of Sage was that you didn't need to worry about > >> manually installing dependancies, just download the tarbal and build > >> (and it all just works). > > > Waiting for Debian et al. packages that manage that... (a pseudo > > dependency package could suffice in the first place). > > > Or a Sage "pre-install" package that downloads missing (perhaps > > sourrce) packages (and applies necessary patches) [and builds them, > > then continuing with Sage installation]. > > Of course then one gets into the whole versioning mess--it's hard > enough to get specific versions of all these packages to play together > perfectly on a variety of platforms.
u...@host$ sage-check ... The following packages have to be installed to build/run Sage on your system: ... Do you want to download them now? (Y/[y]/n) (Answer "y" to show a list of mirrors, "Y" to download them from sagemath.org.) ... -Leif -- 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
