Hi, Le 25/10/2017 à 00:08, Eric Gourgoulhon a écrit : > Le mardi 24 octobre 2017 20:58:17 UTC+2, Emmanuel Charpentier a écrit : > > > It is true. But we are hoisted by our own petard : from our tutorial > <http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/tutorial/introduction.html> : > "The Sage download file comes with “batteries included”. In other > words, although Sage uses Python, IPython, PARI, GAP, Singular, > Maxima, NTL, GMP, and so on, you do not need to install them > separately as they are included with the Sage distribution." > I fail to see how this would not apply to OpenSSL (under the heading > "and so on")... > > > I have the feeling that the current tendency is towards a more modular > and lighter Sage, which deviates from the original "batteries included" > philosophy. Maybe the latter should be rephrased as "mathematical > batteries included". This would exclude standard "technical" software > like OpenSSL, which should be provided systemwide.
I'd vote for a strict separation of sage-the-distribution and sage-the-software : I'm not interested at all in the former, and I think it hampers the latter for which I care. Snark on #sagemath -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
