Re: [sage-devel] distro packaging, docbuilding and modularisation

[François Bissey]

> On 12/03/2021, at 11:20, Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, autotools does not even have a mechanism to advertise 
> dependencies/requirements -- other than "configure" exiting with an error if 
> they are not satisfied. You as a downstream package maintainer declare and 
> update the requirements based on (in the best case) package documentation.
> 

Yup, it is just a build system. Languages that come with package management 
are a relatively new in a way [OK, R had one for a long time, I am sure there
are others]. 
It took some time for it to mature to the present state in python.

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