Hi On 29 February 2012 23:35, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> > wrote: > >> > >> If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then > >> there would be a gain too. Let me stress again : I have some of the > >> things it needs already, so it could just use it. > >> > > > > I was under the impression... > > > > Building Sage Just Works because it insists on such tightly coupled > versions > > of its components. This is why the debianization of Sage was such a hard > > project. It is probably a good (very very long) long term goal though. > > The fact that the "debianization" of Sage happened and was a failure > may be relevant. > > I wasn't sure whether the person just left because of his startup; or whether it was really a "failure". I was under the impression it was hard, would take more than a year, but was finally doable. I don't personally think me or my team has time for this though. > That is why I want to not-debianize sage, but to make a from-source > version > > of Sage in a PPA for Ubuntu, containing all the Sage-sanctioned > components. > > This is an excellent idea. I very, very strongly support it. > Working on it ;) https://launchpad.net/~aims/+archive/sagemath Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- 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
