Hi Kelvin, On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Kelvin Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Should the following resources be consolidated? > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/DownloadGuide > http://wiki.sagemath.org/DownloadAndInstallationGuide > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/sage/src/README.txt > http://sagemath.org/doc/installation > > It seems there is duplicate information floating around. I think the > wiki pages should be removed eventually and the README.txt refer to > the section on source compilation in the Installation Guide.
Here's a scenario against the proposed consolidation. Suppose the README.txt only refers to online documentation or sections in the Sage standard documentation about how to install from source. Once I have downloaded a source distribution of Sage, I would need to go to the online documentation about installation from source. Some people don't have (the luxury of) online access 24/7, so it's very convenient to have minimal instructions in the README.txt about building from source. What I could also do is first build Sage and the documentation and then read the relevant part of the documentation about installing from source. To do this would require me to first know how to build from source. What's in the README.txt right now is minimal instructions on how to install. That should allow me to get Sage up and running. -- Regards, Minh Van Nguyen http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/ -- 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
