On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:49 AM, dagss <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: > > On Thursday, May 5, 2011 3:42:59 AM UTC+2, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:51 AM, dagss <d.s.se...@astro.uio.no> wrote: >> > I don't really have a say in this, but I've given this a lot of thought >> > since I decided to drop Sage as my scientific Python distribution a year >> > ago >> > and have been searching for a new one ever since. >> >> Just curious --- why did you drop it? Is it described at ideas.rst below? > > Well, I figured that making SPKG's wasted too much of my time, and that I > didn't any of the benefits I'd expect (like clean upgrading etc.). I guess I > just discovered Sage's premise: The point is to simplify things for > end-users, not the developers (and the distinction between the two is too > high). As I don't care too much about distributing my software to others (I > don't have any peer cosmologists using Python), the conclusion was I should > stop writing SPKG's and rather just easy_install what I missed. > Then I realized that EPD had a lot of packages that I missed (and had to > manually install) in Sage, so I switched to patching my EPD install instead > of my Sage install. > I'm not happy about the situation, but the benefits of current systems are > too small to warrant the investment. Hence scidist/ideas.rst, which is what > I'd like to have in a system to make it more than worth the investment of > starting to use it + lowering the investment necessary.
Right. The same reasons why I started Qsnake --- I was spending too much time creating SPKG, updating it and so on. In Qsnake, all I have to do is to push a new change to the package to github, and do qsnake -d qsnake -f install package And that's it. It automatically figures out that something has changed, creates the spkg on the fly and saves it to spkg/standard/, just like in Sage. If you are the only one using it --- do you need binary packages? I simply decided to stick with the Sage model to just use source Spkg packages, and possibly create one binary of the whole thing. This is a model, that one person can manage to do. Ondrej -- 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
