On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 5:06:34 PM UTC+1, John H Palmieri wrote: > > +1. > > For those who disagree, please recognize that the current situation is > unmanageable: there are interdependencies between sage and sagenb, so > certain changes in sage require changes in sagenb. Getting those changes > done in sagenb is difficult, because sagenb is not really actively > maintained. >
Could you perhaps point out at these? Are there any issues/pull requests on sagenb related to such changes? > So if you disagree, please suggest a concrete alternative, because (as > Jeroen says) the status quo is not working. > > John > > > On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 1:44:22 AM UTC-7, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I propose to make SageNB no longer a separate package but to move it >> back into the Sage git tree. For purposes of installation and use of >> SageNB, it will still be a separate Python package, but the sources will >> be in $SAGE_ROOT/src/sagenb instead of a separate git repo. The changes >> to the Sage build system to support this move will be minimal. >> >> The reason is that SageNB is truly in maintenance mode currently. Making >> new SageNB releases regularly to fix things is a burden for the SageNB >> release manager Karl-Dieter Crisman. On #14840 [1], he said "the sooner >> sagenb gets back in Sage proper, the better!" >> >> The original reason to split SageNB from Sage was to enable quick >> development. That worked for a while, but now that development has >> stalled, this reason no longer applies. A secondary reason was to make >> SageNB truly independent from Sage, but that also never happened. So I >> see no reason to keep SageNB split from Sage currently. >> >> I know this is a controversial proposal, but it will certainly be easier >> to maintain SageNB this way. I also want to stress that this is >> orthogonal to any future deprecation or removal of SageNB: we can still >> do that from the Sage git tree. >> >> Jeroen. >> >> >> >> [1] http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14840#comment:58 >> > -- 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.
