Tickets and discussions:

• Installing any optional package on the binary distribution triggers full recompile of sagelib #29055: Installing any optional package on the binary distribution triggers full recompile of sagelib
• Marc Culler's macOS app: https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/6QJiUCcAQrU/m/8y3q_CgZAAAJ
• jupyterlab_app / sagemath-forge: https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/QeYle_D8Otc/m/vlke0ub7AwAJ
• Make Sage relocatable #31076: Make Sage relocatable
• linux distribution contains uncleaned build directories #31131: linux distribution contains uncleaned build directories
• Meta-ticket: SSL issues #30556: Meta-ticket: SSL issues
• Build still non-portable despite SAGE_FAT_BINARY=yes because of numpy #31565: Build still non-portable despite SAGE_FAT_BINARY=yes because of numpy
• Allow binary distributions to prevent rebuilding of sagelib #29158 Allow binary distributions to prevent rebuilding of sagelib
• Meta-ticket: Distribution as wheels #31251 Meta-ticket: Distribution as wheels
• relocatable wheel version of package sage_conf #31396 relocatable wheel version of package sage_conf
• Installation manual: Add decision tree, remove mention of Sage-mirror-hosted binary distributions #33131 Installation manual: Remove mention of binary distributions

Testing of the sage binary distributions, downstream packages:

• Release process: Make binary packages available for beta and rc when they are released, to facilitate testing external packages #22657 Release process: Make binary packages available for beta and rc
• Dummy package _sagemath: record downstream package of Sage in distributions #33870 Dummy script package _sagemath, record downstream package of Sage in distributions
• A Dockerfile for testing that the sage binary distribution runs on ubuntu:latest with the following set of installed distribution packages....
• A Dockerfile for testing that the sage binary distribution is able to install optional packages when run on ubuntu:latest with the following set of installed distribution packages....
• Test that a macOS binary distribution works on a set of OS versions, with and without XCode installed. (Sadly, cannot use Docker for that.)
• See the following for some work in this direction:
  • https://github.com/mkoeppe/sage-numerical-backends-coin (current)
  • https://github.com/mkoeppe/sage_binary_tester (outdated)

Related:

• Meta-ticket: Distribution as wheels #31251 Meta-ticket: Distribution as wheels

CC: @vbraun @culler @NathanDunfield @kcrisman @dimpase @slel @embray @isuruf @williamstein

Component: distribution

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/31133