It's the only simple way from my point of view when you want to build on a machine without internet access. Much easier that copying a non-built git install with a full upstream directory. On top of that, "make download" pulls huge tarballs (including some of John database if IIRC :) ).
On Saturday, September 27, 2014 5:35:30 PM UTC+2, John Cremona wrote: > > On 27 September 2014 16:32, Harald Schilly <harald....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Volker Braun <vbrau...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Note: boxen will be reinstalled soon, and the source tarball link might > be > >> unavailable. Watch this thread for an updated url ;-) > > > > > > should one of us put it on the mirrors? > > Is anyone still building development pre-releases from tarballs > instead of pulling from the git repository? > > John > > > > > -- harald > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-release" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-release...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-r...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
