On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 12:48:39 AM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 9:45:18 PM UTC, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> >> Okay. I I have followed you correctly, we have two (mutually >> incompatible) options : >> >> >> - (Dima's option) : package curl, pcre and xz as standard packages, >> and make R depend on them (unconditionnally). >> - (Jean-Pierre option) : add tjem to Sage's core, but build them if >> and only if they are not installed systemwide (= useable at Sage's >> compile >> time) ; do this before trying to build R. >> >> The first option is extremely simple and failsafe. The cost is about 15 >> MB (sum of all installed files in a temporary "prefix" directory, without >> shaving anything) and about 3 minutes of compilation time (no parallelism >> used). We might shave 4,9 MB of docs (local/share/(doc|man). Binaries are >> about 0.9MB. The total potential cots (sum of sizes of the three build >> directories) is 89 MB (= potential cost if the three build directories ate >> kept after building i. e. for debugging purposes). >> > > I don't really follow you: note that gcc is also a standard package, but > it only really gets installed if the system gcc is > not good enough. That is to say, if curl, pcre, and xz are available > system-wide, Sage should not try to install them, > no megabytes used... > I don't think the real issue is megabytes, but rather making sage more modular and easier to ship into distributions (other than sage-the-distrib).
> > >> >> The second one requires hacking the main Sage configuration. I do not >> feel currently quite at ease with this one, but I'm just reading the >> relevant docs. I have no idea of the potential costs, save for what can be >> deduced from the costs of Dima's options. >> >> The first option is compatible with the "batteries included" philosophy >> flaunted by Sage. are the potential 10-15 MB savings worth of hacking the >> main Sage config file ? >> > You can already add them as standard packages and then we can work on making them installed only if not available system-wide. These two steps can be done sequentially though it would be better to get the two of them at the same time. -- 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.
