Another system that takes the Sage-like "distribution" approach, and is worthwhile to have a look to see how they package things, is Macaulay2.
However, they have a serious technical reason for such an approach, as they need compatibility with Boehm GC, and many libraries they need typically have to rebuilt to ensure this. Dima -- 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.