On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 10:13:54 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2017-10-20 10:54, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > Once upon a time, http was not universally supported, one needed to use > > ftp instead. > > You misunderstood my point. It is not about http vs. https. > > What bothers me is that "downloading packages from CRAN" is considered > so important by R that it refuses to build when that functionality is > not available.
It is a good reason for stopping shipping R with Sage, provided that we can still have the needed interfaces up and running. Otherwise it seems not too meaningful to complain about R here. Regardless of how important pip is to Python, it is still > possible to run Python without pip. And it should be like this: the core > functionality should be separated from the package manager. > -- 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.