#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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Comment(by kcrisman):
> > * 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.
>
> I can add that, though the current documentation does say in this very
file:
>
> ''On Mac OS X, you are not required to have a Fortran compiler on your
system. The Sage source distribution is shipped with a Fortran compiler
for Mac OS X. This Fortran compiler is used, unless you specify another
Fortran compiler via the variable SAGE_FORTRAN.''
Is it anywhere near where your thing is? My concern was people on OS X
thinking they needed to get/had gfortran.
> > * 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.
>
> I hear plenty of complaints on sage-devel of Sage taking a very long
time to start.
They mean >5 sec, or >2 sec. on a fresh cache. Not minutes. Anyway,
there are very few systems, I think, where 'minutes' is the right word,
and we don't want to scare people.
> > * "**Note from David Kirkby.** " - is that going to look ok in the
docs? Maybe instead using the ".. note:" syntax...
>
> In my opinion it looked ok, but perhaps I'm biased. I don't know how to
use the ''note syntax''. I wanted to make this quite prominent, as I think
its a pretty important point. We are documenting how to do something that
any decent system administer knows one should never do.
I haven't looked at it in the doc yet, so we'll see when we get there.
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