Hi Jeroen, On 2013-04-30, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > What are your major reasons for upgrading as opposed to building from > scratch? (multiple anwers possible, but only answer with things that are > important to you): > > A) Upgrades build faster. > B) Upgrading is easier. > C) I have a bunch of optional packages installed that I want to preserve. > D) I have various patches to the repos (e.g. devel/sage) that I want to > preserve. > E) Upgrading is cool! > F) None of the above, I do upgrade but I don't really care.
When I was young, I used upgrade because I thought this was the natural way to get the latest Sage release. Currently, I do not upgrade. However, I *would* consider to upgrade, provided that A), C) and D) holds, and provided that one can easily upgrade to the latest beta version. Does D) really work, currently? If it did, it would be my main reason for using upgrade, because I find it a pain in the neck to first build Sage from scratch, then check for each patch in my patch queue whether it has meanwhile been merged, and import the remaining patches from my previous Sage installation. So, if upgrading would automatically clean the patch queue, by detecting which patches have been merged, it would really be E)! Best regards, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
