On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Top-posted to stop threadjacking the SymEngine post]
I'm sorry for doing that -- it was sort of relevant to his question, but starting a new thread is much better. > > Just have the sage-python-library install using pip, assuming your system > has all the dependencies, is almost trivial. The real question is always how > to handle the dependencies, starting at a Fortran compiler. Also, just to > establish a baseline for discussion, Daniel Holth (pip author) said: "When > people ask whether wheel can be used to distribute any other kind of > software or dependency (libsdl, libqt, etc.) I recommend they take a look at > system packaging tools or conda" (comment at > http://continuum.io/blog/conda_packaging). > > So IMHO the right solution is to first separate all the C/C++-level > dependencies (gcc, pari, python itself,...) from the Python libraries. We > still need a way to have a "canonical" stack of the C/C++ dependencies to > test against and patch if necessary, but you could switch that for OS > packages (if there is such a thing on your platform). There are various ways > to do this, hashdist being one of them, and we can likely share at least > some of the package maintenance effort with others. +1 -- this makes good sense. > Then sage-the-python-library could just install itself and its Python > dependencies with pip and requirements.txt That would be awesome. > > > -- > 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. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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.
