I also use sage-on-gentoo. I find it a very good way to just use sage. But i don't only use sage, i also develop it: when there is a feature i miss, i implement it (if i have the knowledge and time to do so). The easyest way to do so is to have sage installed in a directory in the "standard" way. Its impressive how easy it is to modify a standard instalation of sage. Doing the same with sage-on-gentoo would be much harder.
So my situation is the following: i do have sage-on-gentoo AND a standard sage directory. I use both, but mainly i use the standard one (with the modifications i have made). I could live with just the standard sage distribution, but i would really miss a lot if i only had just sage-on-gentoo. The bottom line is that the standard sage distribution provides some important thing that would be very hard to get with a "sage as program" model: make life easy for developpers. And i really think that this easy way to go from user to developper is one of the reasons why sage has improved so quickly. One could say that if someone wants to become a developper he would just download the sage distribution and work with it. But with the actual model every single user is just one easy step away from becoming a developer. And that really helps sage geting more developers each time (and hence, improving more). -- 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
