[Slackbuilds-users] mathics/dependencies

[David Chmelik]

On 3/14/22 12:46 AM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 09:51:39PM -0700, David Chmelik wrote:
>> Okay; how?  The pip2tgz manpage says uses package archives like from PyPi
>> which https://pypi.org/project/Mathics-omnibus/#files has .egg files.  I ran
>> 'pip2tgz Mathics_omnibus-4.0.1-py3.9.egg ' which says it's not a .tar.  Best
>> when manpages have examples...
>>
> @David Chmelik: in your earlier email, you talked about mathics. I built Mathics
> 1.0. Now you are talking about Mathics-omnibus. As you say, Mathics-omnibus
> doesn't offer a source distro. pip2tgz can't build it. [...]
Mathics 1 SlackBuild existed since Slackware 14.2 and doesn't need changes.
     Mathics-omnibus is newer stable Mathics full installation, which is 
what I want to update SlackBuild for, so of course I'm talking about it: 
many SlackBuilds will be being updated, sometimes with major changes.