In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 13:34, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Feb 13, 6:10 pm, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > (RJF) This is not a problem if you drop the requirement that every >>> > recipient >>> > of Sage must be able to COMPILE stuff locally. Just have one person >>> > compile the stuff once and distribute dll files. >>> >>> this means distributing a seriously crippled system. >> >> How so? >> Does that mean that only those people who compile Sage themselves >> have a non-crippled system? > > Being able to write and build your own Cython code is an important > part of normal non-trivial usage of Sage. This requires a functioning > C compiler.
indeed, the crippling is akin to a Lisp system that cannot compile Lisp programs, but can only interpret them. Dima -- 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
