I did not follow the history about mpir and gmp, so forgive me for not knowing the reasons behind the fork, and the childish behavior of developers.
But this smells somewhat like what I saw in another case, when Xorg took over XFree86. Short story, Xorg people just like to tell others and themselves, about how good they are, and how bad XFree86 was. So, I believe this mpir vs gmp issue where there isn't a friendly relationship from both sides, will just cause harm. Maybe would not get to this point, but for example, when XFree86 released version 4.8.0, I made *functional* rpms for Mandriva, but was asked to not consider to add them as "contrib" packages, to avoid causing problems with Mandriva France packagers, and confusion to users. But having two, inevitably soon or later, to be incompatible versions of the same library is just going to cause people to have to choose one or another. [ I don't have sides on XFree86/Xorg or gmp/mpir ] [ I was a volunteer contributor to XFree86 in the late 90s and early 0s ] [ I did not work with open source or a Linux distro for a few years, and when "coming back", after one year sending patches, I got commit rights in Xorg, and after another year, one single person removed my commit rights without warning or questions (everyone breaks builds, and corrects them shortly, right?). But now, so far, I am doing something that I like, and packaging scientific software, sage included... ] Paulo -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
