On Saturday, October 6, 2012 11:56:06 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > Since we just got another report of #11391, I would like to propose > again to add GNU m4 as standard package. The only possible argument > against it would be that it makes the Sage source about 1MB larger... > > On 2012-06-19 14:34, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > How do you guys feel about adding a GNU M4 package? MPIR requires M4, > > also PPL with its C interface (see #12672) requires a recent version of > > M4. This would add about 1.2 MB to the Sage source distribution. > I'd be in favour of including M4 as well. > Moreover, now it's already distributed in the optional autotools spkg (which is really useful for development).
One might argue that all systems nowadays should have a decent m4 already, as patch and iconv we ship as well. But it does not seem to be the case that iconv is always decent (at least on some Solaris, not sure about Cygwin today), and must have been for patch (not sure today neither). And are always these packages installed by default? Ideally, from my point of view, I would prefer to have a completely modular Sage and just do "apt-get install sage" but I fear it won't happen soon. The only use case of a quasi selfcontained distrib is that someone without root privileges but a decent gcc and perl installed can build Sage in a user directory and shipping m4 will help that a little more. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
