On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Pablo De Napoli <pden...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, my point is that gfortran is not distributed with sage in source form. > I think that we should either > '- include gfortran in source form in sage distribution
Including gfortran or g95 in source form is not realistic, as you'll discover if you spend a few weeks trying... > - split the binary files in a separated file > otherwise it is not a source distribution. > )but a mix of a source and a binary one. This could even violate the GPL > (under which gfortran is distributed) siince we are distributing the > binaries but not the sources. Seriously? > I see that spliting it would mean more complexity, > so perhaps we could put gfortran sources and compile them > only on Mac OS > > None of these solutions seems to be nice, though. Building from source would be "nice". Unfortunately, it is not a solution, because it is far too difficult. Confusing users needlessly to save 30MB is not an option. And people who seriously care about whether or not sage-x.y.z.tar is a "source distribution" in some pure sense can (and do!) just delete fortran.spkg. Most users just care that whatever sage-x.y.z.tar is, it "just works". > > Pablo > >> Pablo, are you suggesting that sage -sdist would make two different >> types of source distributions, one for Mac, one for non-Mac? That >> could be confusing, but I guess as long as they were (automatically, >> in the sdist process) named VERY clearly, and it was VERY obvious on >> the download site which was which (and why there is a difference), >> that could be a solution (though it would add some responsibilities to >> someone, either web person or release manager). But certainly 33 MB >> is nothing to sniff at, particularly in situations with low >> bandwidth. What does that (piece of Sage) compress to in the .tgz? >> >> - kcrisman >> > > -- > 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 > -- 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
