On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2011-07-25 15:40, John Cremona wrote: >> A second point Karim made is that he would like to see more more cases >> (currently: 0) in which a deficiency in a part of Pari used by Sage >> -- for example, some number field functionality -- was fixed by >> contributions to Pari itself, rather than by adding the extra >> functionality within the Sage library. > > There are certainly a lot of PARI bugs which were discovered through > Sage and then patched in PARI. > > Regarding PARI contributions: I simply think that Sage is much more > developer-friendly than PARI. One, because programming in Sage is much > easier than in PARI and second, because there is a "Sage community" but > no "PARI community". You cannot really blaim PARI for using C as a > programming language (it is also because of historical reasons), but I > think there can be some blaim for being such a closed community of > essentially 2 developers. There isn't even a working PARI mailing > list... which I think is really a pity.
Last week the pari mailing lists moved to a different server, with the hope that they will work better than before. Also, I am sure that the Pari developers would not regard themselves as forming a closed group! In fact I am sure that they would welcome more contributors; though for the reasons you state, it is not (and never has been) easy to contribute code. John > > Cheers, > Jeroen. > > -- > 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 > -- 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
