On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 09:38:35PM -0500, Ondřej Čertík wrote: > >> That being said, if projects like binstar (https://binstar.org/), > >> which was announced *yesterday*, take off and allow easy > >> installation on all platforms (including Windows...), we can revisit > >> this. Clearly, the issue of distribution of packages has not been > >> fixed *today*. > > > > I don't see any reasons why this new project is an argument. Can > > you list some real problems (better for python >= 2.5)? > > One of them is for example that sympy.mpmath has received 13 patches > since the last release of mpmath 0.17 over 2 years ago: > > ondrej@eagle:~/repos/sympy/sympy/mpmath(master)$ git shortlog -ns > --since="February 2011" . | wc -l > 13
It's also - not an argument in favor of some mystical problems with mpmath's installation. Actually, this just means that we have mpmath fork. > At the moment we don't seem to have the manpower to also > manage a release of another external project (mpmath). Do you think, that mpmath is not supported well? > There is another big problem, that I hadn't mentioned before. At the > moment, you can use git bisect and go into history of sympy and easily > figure out if something broke. The moment we start depending on > mpmath, and we commit just one fix that breaks sympy (by adding it to > mpmath directly and creating a new release), the git bisect stops > working, and different sympy git hashes will depend on different > versions of mpmath. That will be a huge nightmare. We already have this situation for others external dependecies. > Another issue, mentioned by Fredrik in the issue is that currently > mpmath is tested with sympy. Are you about sympy/mpmath/tests/*? Why this can't be tested with travis for a separate project? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
