On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 02/ 8/12 09:41 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: >> >> Le mardi 7/2/2012, David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> a écrit : >>> >>> Unfortunately, from a developers point of view, it is not the easiest >>> language to learn, and my experience of many Sage developers would >>> suggest they will not be over keen on studying the details >>> of .autoconf I can't exactly blame them either. >> >> >> If there were : >> (1) some documentation on autoconf in sage ; > > > That sounds like re-inventing the wheel, as others have written > documentation on autoconf. Unless there is anything Sage-specific, I don't > see the need for this. > > >> (2) with already a few things converted to serve as examples ; > > > There are lots of examples on the web, but I still believe a good > understanding is required to write decent scripts for a non-trivial project > like Sage. I don't think someone will get that by looking at others. > > >> Then that would already cover a large proportion of the cases by >> copy-pasting! > > > I don't think its that easy to do it right. > >> Snark on #sagemath >> > > I like the idea, and may be able to offer some help, but I'm aware this is a > non-trivial project. The rewards would be pretty great though.
After following this whole thread, I still have absolutely no idea what this "non-trivial project" even is. What functionality is being proposed to add to the Sage build system? -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.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
