Re: [sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Julien Puydt
Another alternative : just have a bdist of the last working install. That's what I do on my ARM box where room is sparse (or scarce?). Snark on #sagemath Simon King a écrit : >On 2013-04-30, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> On 04/30/2013 07:49 PM, leif wrote: >>> H) It saves disk space. >> How do up

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Simon King
On 2013-04-30, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 04/30/2013 07:49 PM, leif wrote: >> H) It saves disk space. > How do upgrades save disk space??? The alternative is (at least temporarily) to have several sage installations at the same time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 04/30/2013 07:49 PM, leif wrote: H) It saves disk space. How do upgrades save disk space??? -- 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+unsubsc

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Keshav Kini
Simon King writes: > Does D) really work, currently? If it did, it would be my main reason > for using upgrade, because I find it a pain in the neck to first build > Sage from scratch, then check for each patch in my patch queue whether > it has meanwhile been merged, and import the remaining patc

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:49 AM, leif wrote: > Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> A) Upgrades build faster. >> B) Upgrading is easier. >> C) I have a bunch of optional packages installed that I want to preserve. >> D) I have various patches to the repos (e.g. devel/sage) that I want to >> preserve. >> E

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Benjamin Jones
A, and B. D is nice but not essential. -- Benjamin Jones benjaminfjo...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, john_perry_usm wrote: > I know you said to move along if I don't upgrade, but I would like to > upgrade if it weren't discommended or unreliable, for reasons (A) and (C). > I act

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread john_perry_usm
I know you said to move along if I don't upgrade, but I would like to upgrade if it weren't discommended or unreliable, for reasons (A) and (C). I actually thought it was discommended. I really need to pay more attention... john perry On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:14:58 AM UTC-5, Jeroen Demeyer

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread leif
Jeroen Demeyer wrote: Dear Sage upgraders, I would like to do a small survey considering upgrading (the "sage --upgrade" command) to understand better what the important features are. If you don't ever upgrade nor plan to upgrade, please move along. What are your major reasons for upgrading as

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread leif
Jeroen Demeyer wrote: A) Upgrades build faster. B) Upgrading is easier. C) I have a bunch of optional packages installed that I want to preserve. D) I have various patches to the repos (e.g. devel/sage) that I want to preserve. E) Upgrading is cool! F) None of the above, I do upgrade but I don't

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread P Purkayastha
On 04/30/2013 06:14 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: Dear Sage upgraders, I would like to do a small survey considering upgrading (the "sage --upgrade" command) to understand better what the important features are. If you don't ever upgrade nor plan to upgrade, please move along. What are your major r

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Nils Bruin
On Apr 30, 3:52 am, Martin Albrecht wrote: > Definitely (A) for me (ATLAS insists on tuning on my box) I had that problem too. I then lifted the required files out of atlas and put them in a directory and now I just point SAGE_ATLAS_LIB at it. Then full installation isn't so bad. If I were to ge

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread mmarco
After having some trouble with upgrading a couple of times, which broke my sage installation, i got used to rebuild from scratch each version. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread kcrisman
> > > A) Upgrades build faster. > B) Upgrading is easier. > > Yes to these. -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
Hey, On 2013-04-30, Jeroen Demeyer > wrote: > > What are your major reasons for upgrading as opposed to building from > > scratch? (multiple anwers possible, but only answer with things that are > > important to you): > > > > A) Upgrades build faster. > > B) Upgrading is easier. > > C) I ha

[sage-devel] Re: Reasons for upgrading

2013-04-30 Thread Simon King
Hi Jeroen, On 2013-04-30, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > What are your major reasons for upgrading as opposed to building from > scratch? (multiple anwers possible, but only answer with things that are > important to you): > > A) Upgrades build faster. > B) Upgrading is easier. > C) I have a bunch of