Hi all, The work on porting sage to Gentoo has made good progress but we got a bloody nose on the issue of pickle.... I am referring to the following thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sage- devel/browse_thread/thread/583048dc7d373d6a/735ec83cf845d145
and this ticket: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5985 While Carl Witty mentions that python shouldn't be patched directly as it would make it harder to package sage for distros, Craig Citro went ahead and did just that. I couldn't find a ticket or a thread describing the why of this decision. At this stage we are now using system's python rather than sage's python and found the test related to pickling failing... We have two options: 1) patching python for pickling - given that it is an important system package there will be difficulties in getting it accepted. We would need to be sure that there won't be any obnoxious side effects. 2) trying to do it the original way of ticket #5985 given that it is abandoned in sage it may be difficult to maintain. So basically I want to be sure that I can sell option 1). Francois
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