On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think almost any dependency that Sage-the-Python-package can work > without should be considered "optional" insofar as installing Sage is > concerned. I think it's fine for it to be a stadard part of > Sage-the-Distribution. > > But this gets almost off-topic and in to my preference that Sage > development make a stronger distinction between those two things. End > of the day though, I should be able to install Sage-the-Python-package > with as few dependencies as possible in order to use it to build > applications and code directly on Sage. Whereas Sage-the-Distribution > is more of an end-user thing (in fact I think the OS packaging would > do well to make this distinction as well--have a minimal Sage that > works, but doesn't necessarily support *all* features, plus a > sage-full that is more of a metapackage including all possible > dependencies.
Huge +1. I strongly agree with all of the above. William -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
