On 2012-03-09 10:07, Keshav Kini wrote: > To elaborate: everything needed to build Sage should be somewhere in our > single repository, and when we produce a tarball, it should be copied > out into the root of the tarball. We don't fundamentally need a root > repo in the first place.
We don't *fundamentally* need it, but it is surely nice to have. We discussed this as part of the development of #11073. You want to be able to apply patches to $SAGE_ROOT before building Sage, so before $SAGE_ROOT/devel/rootrepo even exists. -- 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
