Dear Marteen, Le vendredi 27 octobre 2017 16:02:03 UTC+2, Maarten Derickx a écrit : > > Why a separate git branch and not make it something configurable, like > building sage with gmp vs mpir? >
Because those are not the same cases : a) there is no currently (to the best of my limited knowledge) , strong reasons to choose one over the other, b) they give (modulo my limited knoiwledge, again) roughly the same possibilities to Sage, c) there are people able, and **volunteering**, to maintaint this alternative. In the case of OpenSSL not having OpenSSL: a) doesn't give us anything but the ability to do without a package deemed "GPL incompatible" (in the sense that we currently cannot ship it with Sage) b) deprives R and pip users of an useful ability (deemed mandatory by R authors) c) forces us to maintain a patch that is of no use to what I think a majority of Sage users. The point made by William about security issues is also to be considered ; but I'm not an expert... -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- 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.
