Re: [sage-devel] Pari 2.8 and distro packages of sagemath

2015-06-21 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-06-21 13:57, Vincent Delecroix wrote: And there is a huge difference in the number of developers between the two projects which influenced their decision about the release cycle. But the number of PARI/GP developers is something which OpenDreamKit will influence, right? That's what I

Re: [sage-devel] Pari 2.8 and distro packages of sagemath

2015-06-21 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2015-06-21 05:45, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: sagemath should really, really, rely only on released upstream releases or third party packages. We have had this discussion many times before and such a requirement would be a major obstacle for serious Sage development. I think it's

Re: [sage-devel] Pari 2.8 and distro packages of sagemath

2015-06-21 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 21/06/15 12:53, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2015-06-21 05:45, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote: sagemath should really, really, rely only on released upstream releases or third party packages. We have had this discussion many times before and such a requirement would be a major obstacle

Re: [sage-devel] Pari 2.8 and distro packages of sagemath

2015-06-20 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2015-06-21 0:21 GMT-03:00 Francois Bissey francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz: There are two factors here: 1) libcsage is gone in the upcoming sage 6.8. Ok. I would prefer it kept around as a generic place to add wrappers, or better saying hacks :) 2) I bit the bullet and used the pari git

Re: [sage-devel] Pari 2.8 and distro packages of sagemath

2015-06-20 Thread Francois Bissey
There are two factors here: 1) libcsage is gone in the upcoming sage 6.8. 2) I bit the bullet and used the pari git snapshot used in sage for sage-on-gentoo. This was not a light decision. I looked at the packages depending of pari and I found they were in two class: a) packages using an outdated

[sage-devel] Pari 2.8 and distro packages of sagemath

2015-06-20 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
Hi, I believe this should be one of the best places to ask, about any estimative of when it will be available. I have sagemath 6.5 packaged in Fedora. Today I started implementing a pari_wrap.c and pari_wrap.h interface in libcsage, but noticed it would not be a trivial patch to create