On 01/12/2014 02:06 PM, Felix Salfelder wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 01:09:42PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Prefix is designed to run as an ordinary user on non-gentoo systems. If >> you're on gentoo, you don't need it (unless you don't have root). Plenty >> of us have been able to get it working, so if we made a concerted >> effort, I'm sure we could stick a nice UI on it. Besides, it's currently >> working better than the nonexistent rewrite being discussed. > > the nonexistant rewrite exists as a demo [1]. it is based on autotools > (not python). it is mostly boilt down to calling the spkg-install > programs in the right order, while being semantically similar to the > current toplevel makefiles and scripts. it also supports package content > lists (to possibly remove/exchange packages) and is able to optionally > completely disable packages (fallback to system packages).
Sorry, your rewrite isn't the one to which I was referring. If we could not build an entire Linux distro from source just to run sage, that would be the holy grail. But I was only talking about rewriting the spkg installation stuff, which duplicates (poorly) exactly what Gentoo already does. > imo, sage should stay distribution independent, distributions other than > sage should only require to package sagelib in the end. and whatever > happens next, sage (the library) should be freed from hardcoded paths > and from package management code, so not everybody has to work that > out again and again, YMMV of course. Completely agree. -- 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.
