Symbolic computation on Fedora

[Suvayu Ali]

Hello everyone,

First, thank you for your thoughts and suggestions.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > Ick... This thing (sage) is a mess of bundled libraries you'll
> > definitely need to manage your own install. This looks to be a ton of
> > work to unbundle all the libraries if someone wanted to package it
> > officially.
> 
> There was some work on packaging it for Fedora a few years ago; not sure
> offhand where that went. A fundamental issue, as you've noticed, is that
> Sage is more a software *distribution* itself than it is an appliction.
> This doesn't lend itself well to packaging.
>

At the moment I am short on time, so cannot experiment with sage.  That
said, Fedora has a long standing packaging effort for SAGE[1].  It seems
to me sage needs a TeXLive-like distribution model to be not so
intimidating for new users.  This however does not make the effort
required to include it in Linux distribution respositories any simpler.

I'll try compiling my own in a few weeks when I have some more time and
report back.

Cheers,


Footnotes:

[1] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/SciTech/SAGE>


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Suvayu

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