Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> writes: > Le jeudi 17 mai, Keshav Kini a écrit: >> Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> writes: >> > Le jeudi 17 mai, Keshav Kini a écrit: >> >> Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> writes: >> >> > It would definitely help if more sage developers knew how things >> >> > are done in debian, fedora or gentoo -- the mail Harald Schilly >> >> > sent yesterday and the citation therein are spot on there. >> >> >> >> Knowing how things are done in Gentoo is probably the most useful >> >> of these since Gentoo Prefix is actually something we could use as >> >> our packaging system (as has been prototyped by Burcin's lmonade >> >> project), rather than just learning lessons in package management >> >> from it. >> > >> > Notice that rebasing sage to use gentoo prefix/lmonade still won't >> > fix the main issue with sage : that it's not properly available in >> > distributions but needs to be compiled (duplicating a good chunk of >> > what's already there in the process...). >> >> Yes, I agree. But moving to a Prefix build system will be a lot easier >> than making Sage packagable by distros. > > Easier, perhaps, but that looks like trading Charybdis for Scylla!
Why? Doing one hardly makes it more difficult to do the other, so it's not like choosing between alternatives. -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- 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
