On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:54 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 4:23:32 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> >> On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, 02:12 Matthias Koeppe, <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I repeat my strong objections to the proposed change -- which does not >>> solve any problems and only creates new ones. >>> 7. (As I explained before in >>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32532#comment:11) in particular, >>> Python users / developers generally have a working gcc (because many Python >>> packages include extension modules that need to be compiled) but they have >>> no need to have gfortran installed. The reason is that the few Python >>> packages that use gfortran (such as scipy) have high-quality deployments of >>> wheels to PyPI, which are widely used. Sage, however, does not yet have a >>> working strategy that would enable us to use wheels from PyPI. As you know, >>> I have been working on a PyPI-based deployment solution for Sage in >>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29039; this builds everything from >>> source. >>> >> >> Why does it build everything from source? E.g. numpy doesn't build >> Fortran compilers. >> Why do we have to outdo other Python projects here? >> > > I have explained in the paragraph that you quoted (and previously in > #32532). Wheels. They have wheels. We don't. > Are we supposed to reinvent wheels too (pun intended)? You never explained why you went with building everything from source, and why you think it's a good idea (I don't think it is). Do explain why we cannot have what they have. > > > > > -- > 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/bffb95ab-3407-487f-8e19-b8945f7e10c3n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/bffb95ab-3407-487f-8e19-b8945f7e10c3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAAWYfq1L5oSJimRYqXp_5%3D4X8RNNv7n%2Bf2am%3DdihzRb_eMN00w%40mail.gmail.com.
