Not all Americans like to verb things so profligately. On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 1:15:07 PM UTC-8 Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2023, 20:39 Matthias Koeppe, <matthia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 11:39:52 AM UTC-8 Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 7:22 PM Marc Culler <marc....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 11:58 AM Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I imagine it might be an artifact of the design of Sage on Mac app >> >> Marc is releasing: >> >> vendor everything. >> > >> > Vendor is a noun, not a verb. >> >> It's a curse, to be precise, and it slows down the project a lot. >> We have to worry about over 400 packages!!! >> Bloody hell, pardon my UK French, we have more interesting problems to >> work on... >> >> >> FWIW, I consider Marc's effort to provide a self-contained macOS app of >> Sage to be very valuable for the project. >> >> Dima is indeed using the word "vendor" incorrectly. I'm not concerned >> about the grammar; I use it as a verb, too, in this specific context. >> For source code, "vendoring" (= including a copy of the source code of a >> dependency, modified or not, in the source code) is problematic for various >> well known reasons. >> But to accuse a binary distribution of "vendoring" is simply meaningless. >> A binary distribution is made for the benefit of users. >> > > I am not accusing Marc of vendoring, I am saying that him asking to supply > essentially all the components of Sage in source form is asking too much, > as it saddles us with extremely heavy maintenance task, for reasons > questionable. > > Suppose we remove gmp from the list of packages we vendor (yes, "to > vendor", i.e. "to perform vendoring", may be a verb, as we see here. As > Americans make verbs out of everything, I find myself being gaslighted here > by one of them.) > > What then, will it make the task of making a macOS Sage app impossible, or > much harder, all of a sudden? > I have trouble believing this. > > >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/fa119cf9-49bc-4b16-b6af-b1b6fd6584aen%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/fa119cf9-49bc-4b16-b6af-b1b6fd6584aen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/943e37ef-0a11-4331-9e20-52141ccdddc7n%40googlegroups.com.
