Le 05/11/2011 21:24, Justin C. Walker a écrit :
There are so many different versions of each library and system (for Linux, in particular) that it's a practical impossibility to produce a package like Sage that will work on the systems currently supported.
I would like to point out that quite a few distributions have some sort of rolling-release organisation, where some packages are updated within a huge set with complex deps. It works.
And I'm not just discussing linux distributions : there are a few *BSD out there too, and I think there are distributions for Sun, OSX and win32 too.
So I think it's definitely practical and possible to produce a package like sage that will work on the systems currently supported, and more. Because it has been done.
Any of the many debian packages I have on my system has a list of deps. Each sage spkg has deps. Where is the difference? Why would it be impossible to "apt-get install sagemath", "yum install sagemath", "emerge sagemath" and have the right thing be done?
I can't understand why you think sage is different. Snark on #sagemath -- 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
