Re: [sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-09-26 10:32, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: * qfparam_primpart.patch: fixes PARI bug #1611, upstream has not yet commented on this. This has now been accepted upstream, so there is 1 less patch to worry about. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-27 Thread Francois Bissey
I waited a little bit before saying my bit. You are making my work as a person packaging sage for a distro difficult. Heck it was difficult when you started shipping pari 2.4 snapshots while you were release manager. The only thing that keeps me from quitting is pure dumb stubbornness. As for my

[sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-26 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Hello sage-devel, The upstream situation with PARI has always been somewhat difficult. The don't easily accept patches written by people which are not in their inner circle. That, plus the importance of PARI inside Sage, is probably also one of the reasons that PARI in Sage has so many

Re: [sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-26 Thread John Cremona
Sage is very lucky indeed that Pari exists and is as good as it is for many things. Sage is also very lucky that you (Jeroen) exist since you have been very useful to *both* projects, working hard to improve both, and on particular reporting -- and fixing -- a lot of upstream bugs, i.e. bugs in

Re: [sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-26 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-09-26 10:52, John Cremona wrote: I'm sure many Sage users do not know how much Pari is used for come very important functionality, such as most number field stuff. ...and a lot of elliptic curves stuff, elementary number theory of integers, some linear algebra, arbitrary-precision

Re: [sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-26 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-09-26 16:42, Julien Puydt wrote: I don't think it's good to patch upstream and ship it as if it were upstream. What do you mean with ship it as if it were upstream? It's not like we hide the fact that PARI is patched. It would be better to add functionality to sage-over-pari instead

Re: [sage-devel] Diverging PARI from upstream (#16997)

2014-09-26 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, Le 26/09/2014 17:04, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2014-09-26 16:42, Julien Puydt wrote: I don't think it's good to patch upstream and ship it as if it were upstream. What do you mean with ship it as if it were upstream? It's not like we hide the fact that PARI is patched. A good