On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 1:46:41 PM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:06 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2. I'm not in favor of chipping away 1 package at a time in the name of unsubstantiated, vague notions that a package is "ballast slowing down Sage's progress".
It's not vague, it's very concrete. It has been done in the past, cf e.g. R/rpy2, tar, etc., it can be continued just fine. Right, each of these was separately and concretely substantiated with facts. - tar was dropped after it was found that on all supported platforms, the standard system tar did the job. - R/rpy2, as I just explained in a message above. For context for the general readership of this list: gcc/gfortran/python3 are directly tied to what platform support we can claim (note that gcc/gfortran are the same package except for how the scripts are called). I document this platform support in the release tours (see https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/Sage-9.8-Release-Tour#sources) based on the tests that run on GH Actions. Changes to platform support of the Sage distribution are tracked in https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/32074 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/1caf0147-75fc-452b-926f-abb537310876n%40googlegroups.com.
