#12898: Update top-level README.txt
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: positive_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: William Stein, Karl-Dieter
Crisman
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by kcrisman):
> > I understand that the `v` flag for untarring is optional, but if you
remove that flag, then you should probably tell the user how long they
should expect to wait for Sage to untar. It takes a '''long''' time (I've
done this with a student on a couple occasions and we weren't sure if the
connection had timed out!), and I would expect that some of the spkgs
inside Sage likewise take at least more than a couple minutes to untar - ?
> Fair enough, I added back that flag.
Either that or a clarification without `-v` is fine, I just wasn't sure if
there was some other reason to get rid of that flag (e.g., the verbosity
for some with a lot of image files is VERY verbose). I assume the `-xj`
and `-jx` switch is because the mandatory flag is supposed to come first?
I know little of such things but that seems plausible.
Nice that we can build more places. I wonder if Sage would even build
with other compilers, then... say, on Windows or some other Unices... but
probably not, due to other issues like linkers etc.? (About which I also
know nothing, but it's fun to speculate.)
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12898#comment:9>
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