On 15 June 2010 02:41, Pablo De Napoli <pden...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really think that spliting users into "developers" and "non > developers" is very much against the spirit of open source
I'm not sure if its against the spirit of open-source. Many of us use packages we do not develop - OpenOffice is one example for me. > Any barrier of entrance to development is against that. I'm not proposing we make a barrier. What I propose is that we warn uses that setting these variables does not work correctly, but allow them to do so if they wish. At the minute, there is no warning if one set CC or CXX, despite the fact they are not fully supported in Sage. > Moreover, I think that the idea of that all the environment has to be > controlled when building sage and therefore all the dependencies > should be included has some serious drawbacks, like making difficult > the creation of packages for different linux distributions > (see how difficult would be to update the current debian package to > the current sage version) > and this goal would be important for attracting more non-technical > users to sagre. I agree, but I also see Williams point that having to require people to have a large number of different packages, modified in some way, would be very difficult. Dave -- 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
