On Mar 23, 9:11 am, Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote: > a self-contained Sage package for Windows/Cygwin would anyway include > much more stuff than such a package for Unix... > > If on the other hand one goes for having Sage installed on a working > installation of Cygwin (which is much more realistic option), > I see no harm in requiring system-supplied libiconv.
But the same could be said for several libraries that are included in Sage. It's because Sage ships so much that it not so easily possible to get it into Debian, where they object to the fact there are many 'standard' packages in Sage. Sage ships the much more common bzip2 library for example. Whether this is a good/bad thing has been argued many times. The iconv package at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8567 could easily be modified to build / not-build on specific platforms. Dave The iconv package is needed on Solaris, as that shipped with Solaris is not sufficiently powerful to build R. > The "default" installation of Cygwin is very easily modifiable, and > not very > well-defined anyway. I am sure it is > easy to supply a configuration for the Cygwin package manager to tell > it > to download what is needed. > > Dima -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
