On 10 September 2015 at 14:02, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote:
> On 2015-09-10, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am I right that Simon's package is one (perhaps the only one) for which > (B) > > would be useful? If that is true then I don't wish to make things hard > for > > Simon. But then I don't know what the obstacles are to converting his > spkg. > > Partially my ignorance. > > Partially the fact that the code is divided into three parts. The first > has a proper upstream (MeatAxe), but we use a very old version (that said, > even the latest version is several years old, and does not appear to be > faster, but has almost all function names changed). The other two parts are > not published elsewhere, and somehow it seems odd to me to artificially > create an upstream repository, as the spkg *IS* the upstream repository > (but perhaps I am the only one who finds it odd...). > > Anyway, it currently looks like the spkg will be converted to a > new-style package. > Has anyone started? AFter reading the above I just downloaded MeatAxe 2.4.24 (2011) and very easily built it (make check OK); all one has to do is copy Makefile to Makefile.conf and edit 2 lines, as I am sure you know. One way to proceed would be to make a new-style package out of the MeatAxe source first. The your 2nd and 3rd parts would be separate, but with MeatAxe as a dendency. The first part would take about 20 minutes to do.... John > Something else: Of course each package has a maintainer resp. an > upstream contact. Can this information be automatically extracted? Then, > if an error occurs during installation, for whatever reason, the error > message could clearly state: "Please contact f...@bar.com about the > problem." If I recall correctly, the current error messages only > mention sage-devel. > > Best regards, > Simon > > -- > 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.
