On Feb 9, 2012 4:58 AM, "Harald Schilly" <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 13:42, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> wrote: > >> I've had a couple of theories about why applications might fail. > >> 2) The Sage development process is not exactly a shining example of > >> best practice in software engineering. > > 1. Is it available readily in most distributions? No. > > > > 2. Does ./configure && make && make install give something in a > > reasonable time? Uh. ... > > Well, from what I read so far in the last years, this is not a > criteria at all. I think you are simply trapped in the human thinking > process, that you try to find a reason where no reason is. There is a > lot of luck involved and if sage doesn't fit on a very rough level, it > won't be selected. > It's like if you play a random game, and you think it "must happen > now" and if it still does not, you blame it on wearing the wrong > socks…
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