On Dec 16, 1:13 pm, John Foster <jfoster81...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, here I go with a total NOOB question. How does sage work? Is is a > series of lines of code that 'manage' the other software that is in the > system to produce an end result, basically like a browser with plugins. OR;
Well, with a HUGE amount of custom code, and a large number of custom configurations and wrappers. > It makes no sense to me why we can not use the already installed > mathematics apps that are available to us and fill their requirements as > 'dependencies'. I dont mean that the current process is wrong. I just don't > get it & I want to understand. I'm not a programmer, or a mathematician. You may be interested in Sage on Gentoo in that case; see https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo - 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