On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:28:24 PM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote: > > One thing that hasn't been mentioned is possibly separating build > infrastructure (gcc, patch, iconv, ...) from the specialist mathematical > libraries. The former are generally available in usable form from your > distro, or can be compiled without too much hassle in some overlay (say, > gentoo prefix / plain lmonade) since it is following a relatively beaten > path. And has been written/checked by people with some experience in > software engineering. And if, say, there is a bug in the perl ebuild then > its probably already been fixed in the gentoo community so we don't have to > do it ourselves.
Just curious - how would Mac fit in with all this? I know it's possible to do some of these package things with it, but for the "ordinary" user... or would one still in principle be able to download the Sage source, disconnect from the Internet, type "make", and wait for some (smaller and smaller!) amount of time? -- 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.
