So what do you suggest as a solution then? On 18 May, 23:49, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <paulo.cesar.pereira.de.andr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL:http://www.sagemath.org
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