#3131: README and developer guide should warn against developing with binaries
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Reporter: mabshoff | Owner: mabshoff
Type: defect | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
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Comment (by btdhall):
On the index of the Developer's Guide
(http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/index.html) it mentions needing
the source code which implies that you can't develop from only a binary.
I think that should be sufficient but maybe we need to **direct users in
README.md to "read the Developer's Guide"** if they would like to
contribute. This is already the advice given in the "Development" link on
the main website (http://www.sagemath.org/development.html) as well as the
contributing FAQ (http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/faq/faq-contribute.html)
where it also says to "...grab a copy of the Sage source...".
So, if anything, we can **change the wording in the Developer's Guide to
be less suggestive** since that's where all roads to getting started in
development should lead.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/3131#comment:19>
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