On 10/9/07, Simon King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear sage-support team,
>
> On Oct 4, 4:56 pm, "Michael Abshoff"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > you can install the optional ATLAS spkg via
> >
> > ./sage -i atlas-3.7.37
> >
> > This should take about 20 minutes and installs an optimized (for you CPU)
> > ATLAS in SAGE_LOCAL/lib. Then you should reinstall
> >
> >  - LinBox
> >  - scipy
> >  - numpy
> >  - gsl
>
> I have a suggestion:
> After finishing
>   ./sage -i atlas-3.7.38
> it would be good to provide a message such as
> "WARNING
>  Several packages (LinBox, scipy, numpy and gsl) depend on ATLAS and
> might considerably improve
>  by rebuilding them. Therefore we recommend to do
>    ./sage -f spkg/standard/linbox-20070915.spkg
> ..."
>
> Generally, if rebuilding or installing one package makes it reasonable
> to rebuild a second package, it might be helpful for the user to get a
> hint.
>
> Yours
>        Simon

Thanks.  We have discussed doing the above, and probably will.
That said, we actually plan to make Atlas a *standard* part of Sage in
the near future -- the existence of the atlas package at all right
now is fairly experimental.

 -- William

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