On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > exactly how did you come up with 280 points? > quoting to box on top: > """There are obvious exceptions, such as the Linux kernel. Generally these > exceptions work because they started out small and the community and code > grew together. """ > Therefore I'm glad Sage started <17mb and grew slowly: > http://sagemath.org/src-old/ > > Besides that, your first two points are exactly the reasons why Sage needs > this kind of isolation because there is no way to adopt to all variations of > versions distributions are equipped with while still focusing on regular > releases and maintaining quality. > H
The Sage project is now well over 6 years old, and steadily continues to grow. And it is built out of many components that are also more longterm successful projects (e.g., R, Python, PARI, Singular, GAP, etc.). I do not think "and should explain why sage is not included and/or built from sources in any major distro" is the criterion for success for Sage, given our stated project goal, which is to provide a viable free open source alternative to Maple, Mathematica, Magma, and Matlab. None of those systems are "included and/or built from source in any major distro". -- 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 > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
