On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:58 AM, François Bissey
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/11/16 07:54, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>>
>> On 2016-03-10 18:19, William Stein wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Jeroen Demeyer
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> After a quick look at conda, one major difference is that its focus is
>>>> really on binary packages. It might not be easy to support the Sage
>>>> "build
>>>> from source" model in conda.
>>>
>>>
>>> This change in focus could be a big plus.
>>
>>
>> We really should not change this focus, Sage should always support
>> building from source. Reasons:
>> 1) easily allow development on Sage packages
>> 2) performance (binaries don't know which SSE/AVX instructions your
>> processor has)
>> 3) portability (with binaries, you are always limited to the platforms
>> that you built binaries for)
>>
>
> conda is married to the x86(_64) architecture. No support for power for
> you.

or ARM? If so,  that's a serious drawback.

> There is probably no reason why it is so apart from it being the dominant
> market. The installer is x86 only and I haven't seen the
> sources anywhere _I_ looked.

Are these the sources?

  https://github.com/conda

> Francois
>
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