I've CCed David Harvey, but I think that creating a github repo for it sounds great. David
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 9:53 AM Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know what that current status is of the upstream zn_poly > package? According to its website > http://cims.nyu.edu/~harvey/zn_poly/ it is "no longer maintained", > though it has been re-released under a BSD-compatible license. > > Since its last upstream release the package for it in Sage has > accumulated a number of patches as well, and I believe I may need to > add one more patch to it for building properly on Cygwin :( See > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26050 > > If it's alright, I would propose creating a new repository for it > under the sagemath gitlab organization (or GitHub) which would become > the new "upstream" for zn_poly. Then we can merge in all these > patches; maybe even implement a new, more standard build system (I > would be happy to do this). In fact the current "build system" is > going to have problems long-term, as it currently consists primarily > of a Python script that will not work, as written, on Python 3. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
