On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 5:55:38 AM UTC-8 u...@ll.mit.edu wrote:
>
>>> the MacPorts-specific part would be to create a list of packages to
>> install, and put it into build/pkgs/*/distros/macports
>> and a similar global location.
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand what that means.
>
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 14:11 Mouse Mousevich, 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 short answer is that Sage is designed for (among others) research
mathematicians, who may not have the interest or inclination to learn how
to install lots of system packages. So from the beginning it included as
many components as possible. Years ago the presence of MacPorts and other
Le mer. 23 déc. 2020 à 14:55, Mouse Mousevich:
>>
>> the MacPorts-specific part would be to create a list of packages to install,
>> and put it into build/pkgs/*/distros/macports
>> and a similar global location.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what that means. If a package is already installed
>
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
>
>
>> We don't have a single MacPort user among a handful of SageMath
>>> developers. Please feel free to provide patches. (Yes, it means supporting
>>> yet another nonstandard location, more or less, I suppose)
>>>
>>
>> The fun part is that to support Macports, you need to look in
>>
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 11:01 Mouse Mousevich, wrote:
> Please see below.
>
> TL;DR.
>> patches are most welcome :-)
>>
>
> Understood.
>
>
>> Sage-9.2 has several idiosyncrasies that for me are hard to explain. One
>>> - it deliberately refuses to work with Macports-installed packages, even
>>>
Please see below.
TL;DR.
> patches are most welcome :-)
>
Understood.
> Sage-9.2 has several idiosyncrasies that for me are hard to explain. One -
>> it deliberately refuses to work with Macports-installed packages, even
>> though their main difference from similar ones installed via Brew
TL;DR.
patches are most welcome :-)
Details below.
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, 02:40 Mouse Mousevich, wrote:
> A lot of people have a lot of problems with Sage-9.2 on MacOS, installing
> pre-compiled or building from the source.
>
> Sage-9.2 has several idiosyncrasies that for me are hard to explain.
