Dima, our project does not have such a policy of not adding standard normal packages. This bundling with your political demand is inappropriate and not welcome here.
On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 11:20:14 AM UTC-7 Dima Pasechnik wrote: > As in the previous attempt, I am OK with it becoming standard only if it > remains a pip package, a no new "batteries are included". > > As a matter of fact, there is no point in keeping Python toolchain > packages vendored. They can all be pip packages just as well. > > > On 10 April 2024 05:44:36 CEST, Matthias Koeppe <matthia...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> We added python_build as an optional "pip" package (see >> https://deploy-livedoc--sagemath.netlify.app/html/en/developer/packaging#package-types >> for >> the terminology), >> - >> https://deploy-livedoc--sagemath.netlify.app/html/en/reference/spkg/python_build#spkg-python-build >> (added >> in 2022). >> >> "python_build" (a.k.a. pypa/build) is the current standard front-end for >> making source distributions and wheels from a Python source tree. It has >> replaced the deprecated practices of calling "setup.py sdist" or "setup.py >> bdist_wheel" directly. We already use it for building the modularized >> distribution packages. Making it a standard package will allow us to >> modernize the build infrastructure (front-end) for the Sage library in the >> Sage distribution. >> >> I'm proposing to make it a standard package according to the procedures >> in our developer guide. Per our policy, that's a "normal" package, so its >> dependency pyproject_hooks will also be added. The PR is prepared in >> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/37300 >> >> This is a re-do of my proposal >> https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/MIU-xo9b7pc/m/NsyUa7iXAgAJ >> whose discussion was stalled by commenters bundling it with political >> demands. >> >> -- 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/2e535203-69bf-4347-8f19-09d6721e426fn%40googlegroups.com.
