[sage-devel] Questions on (optional) packages

2018-04-05 Thread Simon King
Hi! Related with #18514 (Upgrade of group cohomology spkg), two or three questions came up: One part of the spkg is an autotoolised library. Autotools generates some install.sh script, whose permission do not include execution. Nonetheless on my machine the package installs fine, whereas John

[sage-devel] questions about optional packages

2008-12-01 Thread John H Palmieri
Some random questions about the optional packages available for Sage: Which is more up-to-date: the list obtained by 'sage --optional', or the list on the wiki http://wiki.sagemath.org/ optional_packages_available_for_SAGE? (I'm guessing the former.) Is the list obtained by 'sage --optional'