On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there really going to be much activity on SageNB in the future? I
> appreciate that you fixed the packaging and dependency nightmare, but it
> seems that we are now (i.e. after #14840) at the point where we are likely
> to just wait and eventually remove SageNB. I always found it frustrating to
> do any kind of change on SageNB; there isn't really a good testsuite so you
> basically have to check by hand that you don't break stuff. And none of the
> core developers use SageNB so we don't really spot breakage that well
> either. More than anything else, we can maintain Sage easily because we have
> a pretty awesome testsuite.
>
> Having to do two separate commits, one to Sage and one to SageNB, isn't
> really that much of a deal in comparison. Of course then waiting
> indefinitely for a new SageNB release *IS* a big problem. So as a minimal
> proposal, how about we just take over the SageNB github repo and make
> releases whenever we need them. Which really isn't all that often.

+1  -- I agree 100% with everything above.  If anybody wants added to
the repo, let me know.

William

-- 
William (http://wstein.org)

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