Pablo, There is nothing preventing SAGE from being modular in the way that you suggest. It would be possible for someone to make a version in the way that you describe.
However, this would be something of a herculean undertaking. Although you have many of the SAGE packages already installed on your system, many of them are likely the wrong version. If they are, some things in SAGE won't function. Supporting a version of SAGE that builds into a system like that would nightmarish, since people would need exactly the right version of many different packages installed, and many distro's packages of certain SAGE components lag considerably behind the latest releases. Our hope is that when SAGE becomes a serious free contender, there will be many people who will be willing to work on this task. But our more immediate goal is to make SAGE a more complete computational mathematics suite. If are up to the task of making a such a minimal SAGE, let me know, and I'll see if I can help you getting started. One useful project would be to begin making packages for the smaller software suites that SAGE provides, such as, say, ecm or genus2reduction. ~Bobby Moretti On 2/23/07, pdenapo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm new to sage and I would like to try it on my system (a Gentoo > Linux x86 box). > I already have many of the sage components installed in my system. > > Is there a way to build sage by using them, instead of downloading 90M > of sources > and rebuilding all things that I already have? > > I think it would be better to make Sage more modular, and to use the > components already provided by the system: > > This way: > > - one could upgrade (or modify) one component without upgrading the > hole system > - one can avoid having twice the same thing installed. > - one can save compile time. > > Under any modern Linux distribution for example, one could have a > package that depends on the other sage components. > > best regards. > Pablo De Nápoli > > > > > -- Bobby Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
