On 11/08/11 13:37, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: >> (I use Sage on Gentoo) >> >> For maintainers, the argument is that a package manager should handle >> dependencies for you. It's easier to write the dependencies down in a >> text file than it is to maintain and ship them all with every release. >> >> For many users and some developers, it's easier to have everything >> packaged together. >> >> I don't think these two are mutually exclusive. If sage-on-gentoo >> succeeds [...] > > I was under the impression that "sage-on-gentoo" has already > succeeded. What am I missing? What are the goals for > sage-on-gentoo, if it hasn't succeeded?
I didn't have a particular milestone in mind. It was tried before in the science overlay, but there were a lot of patches and workarounds to maintain, and eventually the developers burnt out. I did too, and went back to compiling the tarballs. I guess I would consider it a success if the sage-on-gentoo guys can keep up their current pace without getting tired. -- 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
