#11081: Update the "Install from Source Code" section of the Sage Installation
Guide
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: documentation | Keywords:
Author: David Kirkby | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Changes (by kcrisman):
* status: new => needs_work
* reviewer: => Karl-Dieter Crisman
Comment:
A few comments for improvement:
* I think it would be nice to have at least the main "fully supported"
versions here. No need to go clicking through if you are on a normal
system, then, and also it will be clear that e.g. Windows 7 is not on that
list just by looking at it. Something like "supported on many Linux
distributions, Mac OS X, and 32-bit Solaris; see ... for details and
status of other systems." I'm not wedded to that phrasing, but it's
reasonable to have at least minimal info.
* A minor note should be added that gfortran is not provided by Xcode on
OS X, but that Sage provides a suitable Fortran compiler for OS X.
* Even for my ancient < 1 GHz Emac (probably from around 2003), it takes
less than a minute for Sage to start up the first time (though it's
close!). I think it is more reasonable to say "starting the first time
may take more than a few seconds; a few platforms will take longer for
reason X" where it is clear that reason X is something about the platform,
not Sage.
* "**Note from David Kirkby.** " - is that going to look ok in the docs?
Maybe instead using the ".. note:" syntax...
All the updates etc. and changes for more accurate documentation look
fine, though I'm sure more knowledgeable folks will have some minor
changes there, since it's a rule that any patch longer than 1 character
has a bug :-)
Nice work cleaning this up, Dave. We are very fortunate that Sage has
enough people who care about this kind of thing that we do eventually
clean them up!
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11081#comment:3>
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