On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 2:14:09 AM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> >>> >>>> (1) Providing a source tarball from which one can build Sage without >>>> internet access is a basic requirement from a company that provides >>>> some funding for Sage development over the years. We don't >>>> contractually have to do it, but I think it is a good to be able to do >>>> so. (2) It is also helpful when we have Sage days workshops at places >>>> with crappy internet (frequent), since at least everybody can build >>>> Sage locally from a single tarball. >>>> >>> >>> PS. in my eyes, my proposal would bring Sage closer to "normal >>> open-source development >>> practices" that you were arguing for recently. No normal project I know >>> creates >>> megamegatarball of everything; reducing these would be a step in the >>> right direction. >>> >>>> >>>> >> Remind me again how this helps with (2)? But more seriously, is there a >> way to have the "normal" distribution be pip or whatever but have a >> scriptable way to create a tarball for everything that is just not the >> default one people are pointed to? I assume yes. >> > here is one I found > http://doc.devpi.net/latest/quickstart-pypimirror.html > > it will create a pypi cache that can be served locally. > > Then, I saw a link saying that a complete pypi mirror is "just" 120GB. > Even if this is 5 times too optimistic, it would still fit on a portable > 1TB or so disk you can take with you. > Or you can just download the packages to SAGE_ROOT/upstream from pip and create a tarball for everything and use the downloaded packages to install using pip without an internet connection ./sage -pip install --download $SAGE_ROOT/upstream sympy # Download sympy and dependencies to $SAGE_ROOT/upstream ./sage -pip install --no-index --find-links=$SAGE_ROOT/upstream --upgrade sympy # Use the downloaded packages > > Perhaps a single tarball was important to have 10 years ago, nowadays it's > really not something so important... > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
