Re: [sage-devel] proposal - remove gcc, gfortran, python building/spkgs

2021-06-24 Thread 'Justin C. Walker' via sage-devel
> On Jun 24, 2021, at 03:57 , Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > It's high time we get rid of this annoyances; all the systems Sage > supports have C/C++/fortran > compilers capable of building Sage, and Python3 as well. > > (and in the very rare cases where it's not available, it's usually a > proble

Re: [sage-devel] proposal - remove gcc, gfortran, python building/spkgs

2021-06-24 Thread David Roe
I'm not that well informed of the consequences, but I'm generally supportive of removing gcc and (especially) gfortran. We should point people at other resources to get a functional compiler if there's an issue. I also give Dima's opinions on this a lot of weight, since I've seen him answer quest