Hi Ralf, On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Ralf Hemmecke<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmmm... looking at > ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/misc/sage/src/index.html > I wonder why these files are not zipped. > Shouldn't gzip, bzip2, 7zip be just fine? > > What is the rationale behind distributing unzipped tar files?
Yes, Sage source distributions are tar files: [mv...@sage mvngu]$ file sage-4.0.2.tar sage-4.0.2.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU) The components that will be compiled live in SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard which is the directory for standard components (or standard Sage packages). Sage packages or SPKG's have the file extension ".spkg". These are usually compressed using tar and bzip2 so you can uncompress using the command "tar -jxf <spkg-to-uncompress>": [mv...@sage sage-4.0.2]$ cd spkg/standard/ [mv...@sage standard]$ file cython-0.11.1.p0.spkg cython-0.11.1.p0.spkg: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k [mv...@sage standard]$ tar -jxf cython-0.11.1.p0.spkg Further information can be found in the following file: SAGE_ROOT/spkg/README.txt -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
