[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>> * To develop sage, one downloads the sourc tarball and then develops >>> inside the devel/sage-xyz directory. >> >> No, this is wrong.    You can *definitely* develop sage by downloading >> a binary and extracting it.  To modify the "sag

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 14, 4:26 pm, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > On 10/15/2009 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 3:15 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > [snip] > > >>> * There is no repository for the source code (i.e. source tarball minus > >>>

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> * To develop sage, one downloads the sourc tarball and then develops >> inside the devel/sage-xyz directory. > > No, this is wrong.You can *definitely* develop sage by downloading > a binary and extracting it. To modify the "sage Python library" > involves working on devel/sage-xyz. Well

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 10/15/2009 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Oct 14, 3:15 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > [snip] > >>> * There is no repository for the source code (i.e. source tarball minus >>> the directories spkg, devel, data, examples, local, (

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 14, 3:15 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: [snip] > > * There is no repository for the source code (i.e. source tarball minus > > the directories spkg, devel, data, examples, local, (ipython). > > No, this is wrong.  There is a repository

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>> Sage *is* different than other programs, since even in the binary >>> release it comes with .hg repositories (under devel and local/bin) and >>> lets users actually modify what they want. > >> Sage is indeed different in that the techno

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>> Sage *is* different than other programs, since even in the binary >>> release it comes with .hg repositories (under devel and local/bin) and >>> lets users actually modify what they want. > >> Sage is indeed different in that the techno