Well I'm not a fan of gentoo,but I did take a look at it. I think they are trying to do the same thing I was addressing, but I'm a Debian pure-blend user and the reason I am interested in the development process of sage, is, I want to try to stir up some interest from the folks in the Debian community to work on getting sage into our mainstream of packaging. Sage would benefit and so would the Debian scientific group. I also am interested in whether or not there is any interest in getting Giac/Xcas incorporated into sage or are they too similar to make that useful. thanks! frosty
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:12 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > -- 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
