On Friday, September 26, 2014 1:40:58 PM UTC-7, Snark wrote:
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> My point is that it's pretty bad for at least two reasons : 
> - for a long-term support perspective, that means more work following 
> upstream ; 
> - for a public relationship perspective with respect to upstream, 
> modifying things in their back (or worse, still proceed after asking and 
> getting a "no"), possibly leading to them getting direct bug reports 
> which don't apply to their similarly-numbered version


If we're patching pari that heavily, we should probably also patch the 
version number that pari provides, so that when people collect version 
information to supply with their bug report, the difference in version is 
obvious. That said, I wonder how many people use "sage -gp" to run gp.

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