On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 26, 11:03 am, Mag Gam <magaw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I will compile boost my self. But why the cropped? is it because of >> license, size, compile time, etc..? > > The subset of boost needed for polybori, another spkg (Sage package), > is included in Sage. > One can probably easily create a version of boost spkg that includes > more of boost. > (just replace what sits in src/ in the current spkg with whatever you > like, etc...) > > There are no problems with the license. > On the other hand, having extra 40Mb in the Sage download would need a > good justification.
It makes no sense to include boost standard in Sage, just because parts of it tend to be useful. There would have to be a very compelling case for why it is needed for something else specific that is included in Sage. It could make sense to have an official optional boost spkg. I spent some time recently making spkg's so I can build mongodb from source, which I posted here: http://purple.sagemath.org/packages/optional/mongodb/ One of the main depencies for mongodb is boost, and you'll find a boost spkg above, which works for me on Linux and OS X, at least for building Mongodb. You'll also find that I packaged boost version 1.40.0, which is maybe a year old, rather than the much newer versions of boost available at the boost site. It turned out that _most_ of the difficulty in getting the latest mongodb to build was figuring out which old out of date boost it would build against! And 1.40.0 is it. Any newer version has changed so much, that mongodb doesn't work on top of it. Boost is under active development still, but most distros have an older version, which is why mongodb does fine building with them, but not the latest boost. So even if boost were included in Sage, the question of *which* boost is needed for a given optional package to build is nontrivial. -- William -- 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
