On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, 25 May 2015 20:17:49 UTC+1, William wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Just curious -- is this intentional? >> >> 1. Build sage. >> 2. Type "./sage -bdist ..." >> 3. Extract the resulting tarball elsewhere >> 4. Type "make" inside the extracted directory. BOOM! Total disaster. > > > Has it ever worked?
Yes, because the first version of "sage -bdist" was a 1-liner that just tar'd up the exact installation. Then we kept removing things to save disk space... My unusual, but I think a very important, basic design principle with sage binaries was that it was *super important* that one could do development with them. The idea is that a person would play with Sage (as a user), then with minimal effort switch to doing some development and contributing. This has clearly been completely lost in the current binaries. It's also been lost in SageMathCloud -- but I hope to get it back there (e.g., there could be a link the output of a docstring or source code of a function in a worksheet, which would setup a dev environment, and get you going editing that very function...) > IMHO nothing beyond 'sage -b' worked in this case... > > >> >> It starts by trying to download tarballs from the internet, etc... >> > > this is certainly worse than it was. > >> >> -- William >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
