On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > But sorting out whether the version of libraries on a system are suitable, > can be tricky. Even having the right versions does not guarantee they will > be found in preference to some other version.
Sure. We already have related issues. For example, the prereq checks perl is installed, but it doesn't check for some perl modules which are required (but not part of debian's perl-base --- not really needed for anything except building sage). As long as it builds with libraries in current debian / fedora / ubuntu, it's ok. > If you are only going to shave off 20 MB or so from the source code, it > might be more hassle than it is worth. If you could cut the download time by > 30%, then I could see it would probably be worth the effort in doing this. > But I'm not so sure you would be able to do that. Too many packages are > probably too specialised. sage 3.0.5 was 188MB, but the debian package (binary) was only 42MB. The source for the debian package is 57.6MB. Gonzalo -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
