On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:52 PM, mabshoff
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>  On Mar 26, 6:43 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM, mabshoff
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> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  > >  On Mar 26, 6:02 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > >  > Is any of the code gpl v3+ only?
>  >
>  > >  No.
>  >
>  > That's good.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > >  > How difficult will it be to update our version whenever upstream
>  > >  > changes?  Do only you know how to do this?
>  >
>  > >  Not particularly hard.
>  >
>  > You didn't answer my second question.
>
>  Gary did it and I didn't pay much attention to it. I assume it will be
>  documented. I don't consider such a thing "hard" once it has been
>  documented.
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>  > >  > Why put this in c_lib instead of a separate spkg called glib-min?
>  > >  > Couldn't such a package be useful outside of sage?
>  >
>  > >  It is easiest if we put it into libcsage.
>  >
>  > That's not a good enough answer.   Until now almost all code in libcsage 
> and
>  > the main sage library has been new code we've written -- except a few
>  > exceptions,
>  > where we greatly regretted them greatly and moved the code out later.
>  > So from experience I'm very opposed to this code being in c_lib.
>  >
>  > I vote -1 to this code going into sage unless:
>  >    (1) it is put in a separate spkg, and
>
>  We can certainly do that.
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>  >    (2) the process of extracting glib-min from the official glib
>  > tarball is automated.
>
>  That is unlikely to happen since it requires manual interaction. It
>  will break in the next release in six months and writing automated
>  tools will take longer than actually doing the work in the first
>  place.

How frequent are the glib releases? If they're not that frequent, this
should less than an issue as long as Gary documents what he's done
somewhere :)

didier
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>  >   -- William
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>  Cheers,
>
>  Michael
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>
> >
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