Maybe it is not that bad if the automagic detection system is not that good. If the automatic stuff works magically on usual config, let's say large Linux distros, that's enough. As long as we have "--with-x" options to pass to configure for making Sage more distro friendly and let smart people do whatever they want quite easily.
On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 3:38:10 PM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > > Le lundi 24 octobre 2016 12:41:14 UTC+2, vdelecroix a écrit : >> >> In between? >> >> * having a curl pacakge that will be installed if not present on the >> system (~the same way we deal with gcc) >> > > Great idea, if I can implement it. Looking in the $PATH is not quite easy > to do portably. I'm currently looking at configure.in, and begin to > suspect I've fallen in a trap... > > Ideas ? > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.