In an attempt to make this less of a religious war and more akin to something like a rational discussion:
- The status quo is that we include Python3 and gcc. If you want to argue for their removal, you need to provide evidence that this will not cause problems for people on supported platforms. What's the evidence? In addition, what sort of evidence would convince you to change your mind and admit that these packages need to be kept for a while longer? - On the other side of the coin, if you have opposed removing these packages, what sort of evidence would convince you to change your mind and admit that these packages can be removed from the Sage distribution? On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 3:27:36 PM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote: > 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/d62754bc-5dd4-4615-9bb5-ac9a6a3ce8f2n%40googlegroups.com.
