On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 11:18:15 AM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > On 26/10/2016 09:59, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 9:24:35 AM UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier > > wrote: > > > > Le mercredi 26 octobre 2016 09:18:06 UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : > > > > On 2016-10-25 23:52, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > This is now Trac#21767 <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21767 > > <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21767>>. The > > > unconditional installation works okay on top of 7.5beta0. > > > > > > The conditional installation can probably be obtained with > > this bash > > > snippet, at the top of spkg-install : > > > > Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, such checks are > > better > > done in the top-level configure instead. > > > > > > I'm not so sure : harder to do, harder to understand, not obvious at > > reading the spkg-install script. But cleaner, indeed. > > > > One good reason is that when two packages will depend on curl we don't > > need to duplicate code. > > ??? I don't understand your point : the code being at the top of curl's > spkg-install script, it has not to be duplicated (nor executed twice : > curl would be marked as installed, and packages depending on it wouldn't > trigger it twice. > > Putting something analogous in the main (Sage's) configure scriptt would > mean integrating curl in Sage itself. R being a standard package and > depending on curl, it would amount to the same thing. In which case, > "packaging" curl (i. e. create a distinct software entity) is nonsense ; > just add it to Sage's source tarball and, indeed, add the necessray > voodoo in configure (or, rather, to its sources, if any). > > I'm not sure I'm following you... > nah it was morning,I thought you meant at top of the R spkg-install script.
> > Furthermore : > > > > > BTW, I'm having second thoughts on the wisdom of installing > > conditionally to the current system's state. I'll open the > > discussion in another thread. > > -- > Emmanuel Charpentier > > -- 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.
