kcrisman wrote: > > I think maybe even a better distinction than "sage-the-distro" is to > call it "SageMath, the Application". As far as users of the > application are concerned I agree the it should have the goal of being > a general purpose stack of mathematics software. For short I'll call > the application/distribution SageMath in (camel-case) and the Python > package "sage" since that's what the actual package is called. > > But treating that larger software stack, and the `sage` Python package > as one in the same makes development on the latter more difficult, and > probably ultimately the former as well. For example--continuing with > R as the test particle--say I'm a SageMath user who makes heavy use of > R for my statistics, and like being able to use R with sage. What > happens when a critical bug is fixed in R, and a new patch release > comes out (something Sage, by the way, doesn't even have but should). > How do I get that patch release? Well I have to wait for a new > version of sage (the package, and everything else that comes with it). > That might include a bunch of other new dependencies that I didn't > really think I needed. Possibly even API breakage elsewhere (though > fortunately sage itself is normally pretty good about that). > > > Yes, I agree that is a very significant issue and of course has been for > some time (with respect to many, many packages, I couldn't even list > them all for you).
... which was less of a problem with our "legacy" spkgs, as you in many cases could simply install an older or a more recent version when available /somewhere/, or even easily create your own, just replacing the upstream version in the src/ folder. More or less just out of curiosity, did we ever upgrade R because of bugs in R (besides build/installation issues) R-thru-Sage users complained about? Closer on topic, is there urgent need to upgrade our current version of R? (The 'configure' bug I reported upstream May last year is by the way still in 3.3.1, although the patch I submitted is pretty trivial.) -leif -- 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.
