I don't like having different source distributions for different OS'es. Thats unnecessary added complexity. If you want to save a few megabytes you can always rsync the sage.tar archive, this will avoid retransmitting the unchanged spkgs.
Volker On Oct 26, 1:30 pm, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 26 Okt., 12:39, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2) a "configure"-like test script that tests the requirements and > > gives useful hints on how to install missing pieces of the toolchain > > and/or required libraries. > > Yep. Especially odd is that Sage ships four MacOS X *binaries* in a so- > called *source* distribution. (The Linux binaries were removed a while > ago.) > > One could consider the bunch of fonts shipped also binaries, i.e. > these should IMHO be moved to separate packages, since they don't > change that frequently, at least not as often as the packages that > currently contain them. > (Some of these and even obsolete ones are in the package's Mercurial > repository, too, btw.) > > I'd also prefer a concept of platform-specific spkgs (perhaps also > tarballs specific to e.g. Darwin and Cygwin), > cf.http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release/msg/6564b50668274ae7 > > -Leif -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
