Trac: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32841
In short, zn_poly is one of "those" packages. Abandoned in 2008, and kept on life support by sage developers ever since. Despite our efforts, the build system remains crazy and it would take a good bit of time to re-do the whole thing using autotools or cmake or whatever to make it reliable and easy to package. And it turns out, the sage library doesn't really need it any more. The one thing it does is done better by NTL. I'm posting here because it's a standard SPKG, but I think removal is a clear win in this case. Smaller tarballs, faster build times, easier on packagers, and no more time wasted updating zn_poly for new compilers and operating systems. But if any number theorists think I've overlooked something, please speak up. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/6ee913f8107f86f5365765aa9e14c7e21698aa54.camel%40orlitzky.com.
