On Friday, April 8, 2016, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 6:43:46 PM UTC+2, William wrote: >> >> this "one other problem of Sage is that it does not define >> clearly what's the public API and what's internal. > > > IMHO thats just not true; What you get on the commandline (i.e. from > sage.all import *) is public and the rest is not. If thats not enough (and > really nobody ever asked) we could mark extra imports as public, e.g. by > adding special sage.foo.public packages. > Why does nobody ever ask? > > If there were large body of pip-installable packages, which are user >> code, this would help *define* what the public API of Sage really is, >> and also give us a much larger body of code to test against before >> making new releases. >> > > What API design school is that? You dump code on users and whoever manages > to build the most convoluted contraption out of that will determine the > future direction of the project ;-) Where is the leadership there? Who is > going to handle the testing for each ticket, are you going to do that > yourself? > > > I don't care about design schools. I would much rather be aware of how sage-dependent code is actually being used in the wild than to sit in school blissfully ignorant of how sage is really being used. > >> >> >> -- > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
