> On 19/02/2015, at 22:19, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2015-02-19 08:31, Marc Mezzarobba wrote: >> On a perhaps related note, Sage used to be about "building the car", >> didn't it? > I would say it still is about "building the car". I think this refers to > using dependencies where possible. Instead of writing our own functions to > compute in number fields, we wrap PARI's number field functionality. > > What you do is to take only certain parts of the Sage car, change the > bodywork and then complain that the wheels no longer fit. > >> I find it ironic how hard sage makes it for other projects >> to rely on it > You seem to think that Sage is actively making it hard for other projects. I > simply think that the way how Sage development is done is fundamentally > incompatible with what the distros want. >
I would agree with that. Especially binary distros. > I think this sentence from Volker is completely on the spot: >> -1 to delaying a Sage version for $DISTRO to catch up. > I have some flexibility but I have been managing to keep sage-on-gentoo on top for a number of years now with an occasional hiccup during beta/rc. Occasionally sage doesn’t move fast enough for me and I must say I think I am starting to suffer from fatigue. Still it is cool to be able to do: fbissey@QCD-nzi3 ~ $ python Python 2.7.9 (default, Dec 27 2014, 00:03:19) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sage >>> with your system python. François -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
