On 26 Mai, 20:25, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 11:13 AM, leif wrote: > > In the long term, many packages should be moved from the main tarball/ > > made prerequisites, such that you only have to download them if you > > really need them. > > One of the points of Sage was that you didn't need to worry about > manually installing dependancies, just download the tarbal and build > (and it all just works).
Waiting for Debian et al. packages that manage that... (a pseudo dependency package could suffice in the first place). Or a Sage "pre-install" package that downloads missing (perhaps sourrce) packages (and applies necessary patches) [and builds them, then continuing with Sage installation]. > Of course, with Windows we're already down > that slope some, as cygwin is a "dependancy" (though one could imagine > shipping a cygwin+sage binary that just requires double clicking and > installs like any other standard MS app). +1 (and remove Cephes from the source tarball :) I wonder if a M$ user should be required to install Cygwin and compile Sage at all... ;-) -Leif -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
