Re: [sage-devel] Should Sage binaries be distributed as a self-extracting file?

2012-02-11 Thread David Kirkby
On 10 February 2012 21:20, David Roe wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. > David Thank you. Seems you are the only one to comment, so I guess it wont happen any time soon (if at all). Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, se

Re: [sage-devel] Should Sage binaries be distributed as a self-extracting file?

2012-02-10 Thread David Roe
Sounds like a good idea. David On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 08:19, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I see a question on sage-support where someone had troubles on OS X, as he > had installed a 10.6 binary on a 10.5 machine. With all the different > binaries, I can see it being fairly easy to pick the wrong o

[sage-devel] Should Sage binaries be distributed as a self-extracting file?

2012-02-10 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I see a question on sage-support where someone had troubles on OS X, as he had installed a 10.6 binary on a 10.5 machine. With all the different binaries, I can see it being fairly easy to pick the wrong one. It got me thinking whether it would be more sensible if we distributed Sage as a self