By our current procedures, the installation guide is always outdated because - the installation guide is published at the time of the release - the information regarding the availability and quality of binary distributions and other downstream packaging comes in after the release.
The best place to collect such information is in the section "Availability of Sage X.Y and installation help" -- for 9.4 see https://wiki.sagemath.org/ReleaseTours/sage-9.4#Availability_of_Sage_9.4_and_installation_help (I remark here that it is crucial that this information is tied to a specific version of Sage.) I would suggest that we add links from the installation manual and from download pages on the web site to this specific wiki page. On Friday, October 29, 2021 at 12:42:29 PM UTC-7 Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote: > Hi, > > i have to tell various people how to install Sage on their OS and i am a > bit confused about MacOS and Windows installers. > > Regarding MacOS, the installation guide [1] speaks about alternative > binaries than the ones that are available on the mirrors, explaining > that those "have been signed and notarized, eliminating various errors > caused by Apple’s gatekeeper antimalware protections". > > My first question is: if such binaries are better, why don't we > distribute similar binaries on the mirrors ? Which binaries should be > recommended ? > > Regarding Windows, the mirrors propose a 9.2 version of Sage (0.6.2 > installer), but the last release available on [2] is Sage 9.3 (0.6.3 > installer) > > My second question is: is the 9.3 ready for use and recommended, and if > yes, why isn't it available through the mirrors ? > > Ciao, > Thierry > > [1] https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/binary.html#macos > > [2] https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/releases > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/8066b6f2-d54b-4654-a60c-a675ad3ff8f6n%40googlegroups.com.
