Item #2 actually happened. Can you cite posts from people successfully using the tools you mention to get around it?
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 7:48:35 PM UTC-7 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Thu, 2021-09-23 at 18:12 -0700, Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > I repeat my strong objections to the proposed change -- which does not > > solve any problems and only creates new ones. > > > > 2, 4, 6, and 7 are addressed by Conda, Nix, Guix, Homebrew, or even > Gentoo Prefix. These projects *want* to build entire distributions that > run out of your home directory. > > > > > 5. The gcc spkg is specifically used in building the binary > distribution. > > Any discussion of removing the gcc/gfortran spkgs without including a > > discussion of deployment as the binary package is incomplete. > Availability > > of the compilers at runtime is a key feature that we have advertised > > through facilities such as the magic %cython directive and others. > > > > Whoever is building the binary images could install a compiler into > SAGE_LOCAL with "dpkg-deb -x" or whatever before they start. There's no > need for it to come from an SPKG. > > The fact that we even have to consider these issues supports the claim > that these packages are a maintenance burden. > > And, veering off-topic: > > Our binaries aren't really binaries in the traditional sense. We ship a > 3GB image of an entire operating system. This could be done much easier > by... shipping an image of an entire operating system: QEMU, > VirtualBox, Docker, etc. You could tar up an entire Gentoo system with > sage installed and it would probably take up less space than our > existing binaries. Similarly, I'm sure we could tar up a Conda image > where sage was installed and tell people to download that. Provide a > launcher script and it would work out-of-the-box. > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/fddc13dc-a843-4bc2-a06e-390a54cbe0fan%40googlegroups.com.
