On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:39:28PM +0100, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > Obviously your (and probably others) opinion is that a sage installation > as approached by Felix for Debian cannot easily be lifted to other > non-debian distributions. I haven't actually looked at any code (so I'm > rather uninformed). Still, can you summarize what the problems with > Felix' approach is?
Hi there. nothing i proposed to merge into sage is debian specific^*. i merely made it possible to optionally disable packages, and make sure the rest still works (independent of this choice). finally it worked with either all packages enabled on a random platform, or with most packages disabled (manually) and running on debian (carefully crafted with recent packages). and to make it clear: the main focus has never been debian. that's why i was not done after unhardwiring the run time paths in sagelib (=src/*), it was pretty clear that nobody cares. Furthermore, i didn't even dare to propose automatic choice of whether a package should be disabled. you guess that i am sure it would work out for most packages. Volker (welcome back from sarcasm mode!) may be right that some doctests were failing in my demo tarball, but that was about the same number that were failing in the "build-system" branch, where I started off. once the dust from the git transition has settled, it should be straightforward to review/merge/rebase the patches/commits/branches i have lined up. but i didnt receive any serious feedback yet -- particularly not during the project period. googlegroups won't forget. have fun felix ^*Volker might have misconceived my failed attempt to fix libgap. when it turned out that OSX doesnt like symbol name mangling, i proposed to patch the (not yet existing, not yet planned, not yet reachable) sagelib package for debian, instead of unnecessarilty packaging libgap for debian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
