On 22 July 2012 06:19, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/22/2012 01:09 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sunday, 22 July 2012 07:05:16 UTC+8, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> On 07/21/12 11:21 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> > I wonder if WRI use some sort of intelligent installation, which >> detects >> > the system and installs the right parts for that. >> >> >> this means that the installer carries even more (semi)system libraries >> than Sage. >> E.g. Sage relies on system's libc, but Mathematica cannot do this, as >> these >> are not necessarily compatible on different Linuxces. >> > > A way to counter huge download size would be to distribute just a small > installer which downloads the other binary files depending on which system > it is on.
That might be a workable solution. It is certainly the approach taken by a lot of Windows installers. Perhaps the browser could automatically download the right file. I'm not sure how much information is given by Firefox on Linux about the system it is run on. It could certainly be done with a bit of javascript or similar, though people might tend to disable that. If you go to the Adobe site, and try to download Acrobat reader, it attempts to work out what system you are using, but offers the option of downloading a binary for something else. Anyway, it is food for thought. Dave Dave -- -- 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
