2015-06-21 0:21 GMT-03:00 Francois Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > There are two factors here: > 1) libcsage is gone in the upcoming sage 6.8.
Ok. I would prefer it kept around as a "generic" place to add wrappers, or better saying "hacks" :) > 2) I bit the bullet and used the pari git snapshot used in sage > for sage-on-gentoo. I noticed arch did the same: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pari-sage/ But I would still prefer to, as much as possible, and to avoid bureaucracy, to use the upstream pristine version. > This was not a light decision. I looked at the packages depending > of pari and I found they were in two class: > a) packages using an outdated (pari 2.3) interface to pari. Those > are clisp and perl binding to pari. For those if you want to use pari > you would have to provide an outdated version for their use. Currently I am a co-maintainer of pari in Fedora. The official maintainer "kind of" inherited it, to provide the perl bindings. I am a bit unsure about clisp interfaces, but the main maintainer is of clisp is very friendly to sage, so he should not "block" work on getting everything in place. > b) all the other packages I knew to be depending on pari are > in sage. They will compile and work with the pari provided by > sage, if sometimes with patches (lcalc for example). This is currently my major issue, if creating a pari-sage package, it would also be required by all other packages, that, currently only sagemath uses anyway... But getting it approved needs to pass a "steering committee". Well, sorry for so many " so far :) > I don’t know any other packages depending on pari in Gentoo, > I don’t know the situation in fedora but I suspect it will be similar. When I was maintaining a sagemath package in Mandriva it was a bit easier, as I had "superpowers", but now, in Fedora I need to follow any rules in place. I am still believing sagemath could become a standard package in most distros, so, libcsage is/was a place to add wrappers to sage specific patches, otherwise, sagemath should really, really, rely only on released upstream releases or third party packages. > François Thanks, Paulo -- 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.
