source code tarball?

[John Cremona]

In the first line of https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/installation/source.html#sec-installation-from-sources the words "source code" are a link to the wikipedia page for "source code", which is not very helpful.  I was expecting it to be a link to page shoing where to download a tarball.  I sometimes use the tarball to install from source, instead of using a git clone -- I assume that has not been discontinued?

John

[julian...@fsfe.org]

I guess the idea is that further down on this page, you are told to follow the instructions in the README here https://github.com/sagemath/sage/#readme which in turn tells you get the "sources" from here https://www.sagemath.org/download-source.html.

I agree that this is not terribly intuitive, however, the wikipedia link was introduced in

commit 5cddc06a8118d8fb9211fe8232b1183daba9f01f
Date:   Tue Mar 29 15:11:07 2011 +0100

So it's been there for quite a while but certainly the surroundings have been modified quite a bit since then.

If you want to create a PR to change that link, I am happy to give it positive review.

julian

[John Cremona]

Thanks, that's the page I was expecting.

I think it would be a good idea to have that linked more obviously, but  I am not able to make a PR right now.

I found a tarball on GitHub on the releases page, so made progress, though as I reported elsewhere I have not yet been able to build sage from it on one machine.

John

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[Dima Pasechnik]

to be fixed by https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/37791

Please review.

Dima