On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:35 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > If you ever get tired of raising the issue, maybe you could try doing >> > something about it. >> >> >> <defensive> > > > I think in this case the defensive is understandable. > >> >> I have done things about the issues with optional packages. >> For example, I wrote >> >> https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc-public/blob/master/build.py >> >> which I run with each new release, and which automates installing >> every optional package I think people request or care about. I've >> reported a lot of issues >> as a result. >> > > Hmm, that sounds like something that would be very useful to have as part of > the release process itself. Does it only work in SMC, though? (And if so, > maybe it's not going to catch all binary things since linking etc. would all > be identical on identical SMC instances? Excuse me if I overreach, because > obviously I don't understand the internals of SMC too well, just wondering.)
That in this case is a Python script that tries to install everything to make the heavily enhanced version of Sage that people get when they use Sage on SMC. But anybody could use it if they wanted the same enhanced sage. It's mostly automated, but there's a step or two that isn't right now... William > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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/d/optout.
