Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-21 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I'll post a list of highly recommended optional packages in this thread sometime in the next few days. William Here is a list of highly recommended optional packages: cbc-2.3.p2.spkg cunningham_tables-1.0.spkg

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-21 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 18, 2010, at 1:58 PM, arthur wrote: On Jun 18, 3:25 pm, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: But sounds like, as with a big buffet, too much of a good thing is just too much. It's worth pointing out, though, that most of the optional packages are databases, packages for some very

[sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread arthur
Ah, ok... Since this is an installation that's intended to go out to a few dozen machines I'm not sure in advance what the user's might need so wanted to give them everything possible. A veritable Las Vegas buffet of Mathematical software. But sounds like, as with a big buffet, too much of a

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:23 AM, arthur alg...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, ok... Since this is an installation that's intended to go out to a few dozen machines I'm not sure in advance what the user's might need so wanted to give them everything possible.  A veritable Las Vegas buffet of

[sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread kcrisman
But sounds like, as with a big buffet, too much of a good thing is just too much. It's worth pointing out, though, that most of the optional packages are databases, packages for some very specific research use, additional graphics, or computer internals, in which case perhaps the user could

[sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread arthur
On Jun 18, 3:25 pm, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: But sounds like, as with a big buffet, too much of a good thing is just too much. It's worth pointing out, though, that most of the optional packages are databases, packages for some very specific research use, additional graphics,

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:58 PM, arthur alg...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 18, 3:25 pm, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: But sounds like, as with a big buffet, too much of a good thing is just too much. It's worth pointing out, though, that most of the optional packages are databases,

Re: [sage-support] Re: Sage/Python Startup Failing on Snow Leopard

2010-06-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 06/18/10 11:30 PM, William Stein wrote: Fair enough. I'll post a list of highly recommended optional packages in this thread sometime in the next few days. William IMHO, there should be some distinction between optional and experimental. At the moment, there appears to be done. My own