given that Mathematica install is at least 5Gb, and an install of NVIDIA tools is about 18Gb, 2Gb does not look like a lot.
Anyway, a straightforward "jupyter kernelspec install --user" copies much more stuff than needed (all the .so extension modules are about 60%, with the rest being uncompressed html docs - 0.7Gb, and few other things). There should be a way to avoid copying, .so, it's really looking like a bad Python path management. On September 2, 2025 10:16:16 AM CDT, Marc Culler <[email protected]> wrote: >It is also worth paying some attention to reality when it comes to the cost >of disk storage. The cheapest macBook Air model costs $900 and comes with >a 256GB ssd. Upgrading to 512GB costs $200 extra. Users who are not >willing to invalidate their warranty and are not mechanical geniuses cannot >replace the ssd with a larger one by themselves. So, for many students, >the marginal cost of disk space is $800/TB. Most students will choose the >256GB drive rather than pay $200 more. Of course you can buy a decent 1TB >portable ssd for less than $100, but no one wants to lug one of those >around so they can plug it in when they need to run Sage. > >- Marc > >PS It does not help to tell them that they chose the wrong OS. > >PPS Many students are using older computers with even smaller disks. > >On Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 9:56:39 AM UTC-5 Marc Culler wrote: > >> On Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 9:19:40 AM UTC-5 Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> OK, so the 2.3Gb issue goes away if we compress and prune the docs, >> and only only then do >> >> jupyter kernelspecs install >> >> Is this what you are saying (because 120Mb is really not something to >> worry about) ? >> >> >> Yes. >> >> By the way, Sage has custom code in the SageKernel class which makes the >> docs available from the Help menu in a jupyter notebook. It does not >> handle the gzipped files, so we modify it. For that we use the cocoserver >> pypi package. >> >> I don't know where 10Gb come from - pdf docs? Docs for all the >> optional and standard packages? >> >> >> % du -sch sage >> 11G sage >> 11G total >> >> That is the image we use as a starting point for both Sage_macOS and >> sage_appimage. It includes many optional packages as well as the html >> documentation in all languages and the huge amount of detritus left over >> after a build (which we remove). It does not include pdf docs. >> >> So 10GB (well, really 11GB) is just the disk footprint of a normal Sage >> installation when Sage is built from source. >> >> - Marc >> > >-- >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 [email protected]. >To view this discussion visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/9845596f-ae43-4a80-b3e2-bfdbba9c0d93n%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-release/04B81112-74BB-4C44-9069-E7A2F47247C0%40gmail.com.
