On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 14:11 Mouse Mousevich, <u...@ll.mit.edu> wrote: > I looked into build/pgks/* (1.5 GB) and it appears that Sage is trying to > be a package manager, in addition to what people probably want it for. > > I guess at version 9.2 it's rather late to ask why it isn't good enough to > just list in the README a set of packages that Sage requires to run, and > have a minimal config that would check for their presence at install time? > Letting user to worry about, e.g., where and how to install OpenSSL-1.1.x > or python38? >
we are trying to do it right, with automated testing on the many platforms: a dozen of different Linux distributions, some with several versions, with Conda, with Homebrew, with Cygwin and WSL on Windows. This needs the information on what packages are needed on each of these. Letting the user worry about won't help for this task. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/85d43727-0336-406f-b877-35b5ed8bb29dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/85d43727-0336-406f-b877-35b5ed8bb29dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-support/CAAWYfq0stPCpz74ssWn%2BSmV1xRQTCoLMX0_MzTx%3DKDmUavRqCw%40mail.gmail.com.
