On Sat, 2024-04-20 at 12:53 -0700, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Do we have the manpower necessary to such development ? .
Linux distributions (or e.g. Conda) already do it for us. What we don't have is the manpower to do what we currently do, but *correctly*. The sage distribution sucks. Lots of packages are outdated. Our ./configure detection system doesn't understand complex requirements. It can't do dependency resolution (can't tell if a package is needed or not). System and SPKG packages can't be mixed. We can't pass ./configure options to the packages we build. We don't have different classes of (build, runtime, test) dependencies. Our build scripts are random collections of shell code. Our tests don't pass. We can't rebuild for ABI breakage. We don't support multiple versions of packages. The standard/optional system is inconsistent. We can't push security fixes to users. In fact, we don't even bother to look for security issues in the first place. Everything's easy if you do a bad enough job at it. -- 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/c88dc1d64531e0d5a703c528af8442816a0c8662.camel%40orlitzky.com.
