I like your ideas about guest distributions Georg. The missing thing you describe: "a way to tell the host distrubution on what packages we depend" is not really the missing thing. I think a way to make sage configurable to use other external program's instead of spkgs is really the missing thing. Since it is not our responsibility to make packages specific to a distribution. And the configuration file I mentioned would allow the person packaging sage for say debain to just put some stuff in that file so sage knows where to find the packages (it would be a non trivial effort to make such a configuration file also work tough). And leave the generation of the deb file to the guy packaging sage for debian.
Responding to you P.S.: Well, according to the CPL licence you are allowed to link against the CPL licenced libraries without using the same licence as them (or even without opensourcing) so this incompatibility is not that bad right? -- 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
