> > It is officially none of my business what you decide. > > However, given that developers are the only people likely > > to know how to create and post a diff-Naur patch file and > > developers are likely able to install tools and 'patch' is
Ixnay on the developers being likely to know how to install tools of this kind. Dave is right that this is beside the point under discussion, but Sage has consistently been trying to attract people to developing/documentation/whatever who wouldn't know a diff-Naur patch file if it hit them in the head, so this argument doesn't necessarily hold from that side either. Luckily, Sage via Mercurial has something equivalent to this which is well documented, just for folks like me; it's worth making the barrier to entry to development (on the technical side, not mathematical) as low as is reasonable. In fact, sometimes we tell people on sage-support to apply a patch to get some bugfix or new functionality, and it's very nice that we can give them a specific *Sage* command to do this which doesn't require 'tools'. Anyway, perhaps a little off topic, but worth pointing out :) - kcrisman -- 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
