The Sage distribution will continue to exist. There will be no user-visible change coming from the modularization project for the users of the Sage distribution.
That is simply not true right now. The # optional sage.* doctests as a user-visible change. Matthias means that all pieces (the sage library and external packages that the sage library depends on) are all there and available to a sage user after the modularization project. That is why you (and most of us) didn't notice and care much about the modularization project up to now, until those massive `# optional ...` tags start to appear in the code you care about. I don't think we can dismiss `# optional ...` tags from the sage library if we embrace the modularization efforts of the sage library, as Matthias is trying to convince us. It is more productive to find ways to do it in more pleasing way. -- 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/5dcc7bf9-fee2-438a-8306-25d287978445n%40googlegroups.com.
