There is already a "make download". If you want you can add a "make download-more" (or so) to also download popular optional packages...
On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 1:13:40 PM UTC, kcrisman wrote: > > > >> >> > >> There are people who have a very bad band-with. In my case, it's >> fine >> > >> when I am at university. But other than that, I only have a mobile >> > >> internet stick, for which 50MB more or less really matters. >> > > >> >> +1 with this point of view. >> >> However, when lacking good internet connection, unless the bandwidth is >> so slow that it was already impossible to download sage itself (in such >> (frequent) cases the question is irrelevant, and workarounds like the >> self replicating live USB may apply), as for me the problem is not much >> the total size (one can wait), but the fact that some spkgs are a huge >> single file and must be downloaded all at once. >> >> A concrete example for me is "sage -i database_gap" which always >> requires a lot of attempts because in the download duration, there is >> always a timeout at some point that forces to redownload everything from >> the beginning. A manual solution is to use repeated "wget --continue" >> within the upstream/ directory, which 'sage -i' is not offering by >> default. I am not sure if urllib has such an obstination option. >> > > Hmm, this is a good point. And Mac doesn't have `wget` so one has to use > `curl` which perhaps doesn't have the same options, and I don't know what > Sage uses internally to download all this. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
