Right now, CHomP is an experimental spkg for Sage. I propose that it be optional instead.
Description: CHomP stands for "Computational Homology Project," and it is a collection of software for homology computation. It includes both command-line functions and a C++ library. Note that it computes homology much more quickly than Sage's own routines, sometimes by a factor of 100 or more. License: version 2 of GNU GPL Web page: http://chomp.rutgers.edu I'm willing to be the maintainer of the spkg for the required length of time (2 years?). With the patch at <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9942>, if I run ./sage -tp 0 -long -only-optional=chomp devel/sage then all tests pass on every machine I've tried: sage.math two mac OS X 10.6 boxes t2.math hawk (David Kirkby's OpenSolaris on x86 machine) skynet machines cicero, eno, flavius, fulvia, lena, mark, sextus, taurus (I can't get Sage to compile on iras or cleo, so I don't know about those.) So I think the spkg is in pretty good shape. If you're willing to vote for this, you might consider reviewing patch #9942; it should be pretty easy once you install CHomP... I think making a package optional requires a vote, so vote here. -- John -- 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
