Who is the author of hyperellfrob? There is a point in addition to Michael's: maintaining a fork which only differs with respect to libtools packaging is one thing, but we would also need someone to take responsibility for any bugs found in the code, if the original author was not able, willing or available to respond.
John On 24 April 2015 at 00:54, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 04/23/2015 04:56 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>> >>> Can't we work with upstream (the authors) to package these? >> For starters, none of these seem very active projects. In particular, >> hyperellfrob and bernmm have their last release in 2008 and 2009. >> >> Second, what if the authors don't care? >> > > There are two kinds of don't care: > > 1. The author doesn't like autotools or doesn't want to accept > outside contributions. > > 2. The code was for an old project and the author can't be bothered > with it any more. > > Both have the same solution: fork it and make releases on the sagemath > github or wherever. In the case of (2), this is obviously best for > everyone. If it's (1) instead, then most of our additions will be > independent of the "real" code making it trivial for us to merge > upstream changes. Then our fork will be the better fork (since it builds > easily and has all the same features), and people will use our fork > instead. Eventually the author will come around, or if not, that's not a > huge problem either. > > We're essentially maintaining a fork now, so it wouldn't necessarily be > more work after we're done auto-tooling it. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
