On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:43 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> 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, with Windows we're already down >> that slope some, as cygwin is a "dependancy" (though one could imagine >> shipping a cygwin+sage binary that just requires double clicking and >> installs like any other standard MS app). > > +1 (and remove Cephes from the source tarball :) > > I wonder if a M$ user should be required to install Cygwin and compile > Sage at all... ;-)
Obviously random users of Microsoft Windows will not be required to install Cygwin and compile Sage in order to use it. However, they will have that *OPTION*, and we'll make it incredibly easy for them to do so. We will make it easy for users of Windows to do development on Sage, if they so chose. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
