This is to gather some feedback about future requirements for installing Sage. https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/40689 wants to make installing boost the user's responsibility to install, which is easy enough on linux (unless you are not root) and what I would have thought way past the frustration tolerance of a casual user on macOS if they don't already use some third-party package manager.
In that case (plain macOS) you basically have to follow the instructions on https://www.boost.org/doc/user-guide/getting-started.html#_download_boost to compile & install boost by hand. I personally don't use macOS unless I absolutely have to, so I don't really have any skin in the game here. So if you use a mac and have some thoughts about installing boost, this is your thread ;) PS: On a meta-level there are definitely advantages to let somebody else provide the basic environment. But imho we should then start with a specific and reproducable basic environment that you can easily install (and fwiw conda is the only contender here that does not require root and is cross-platform). And not start by making that switch implicitly as a side effect of "move boost to prereqs, and by the way here are three different ways to get boost" -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/0d42b833-6966-473d-87b8-674b894801b1n%40googlegroups.com.
