On Friday, June 16, 2023 at 10:49:49 AM UTC+9 Kwankyu Lee wrote:
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. It depends on what you mean by "there" because it is not been explained I think how a user should install and work with Sage afterwards. I agree it is clearly all available, but depending on how we tell a user to install, there could very well be changes. 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've been following along with different pieces to see how it's going. You are right, in part I am bringing this up now because it is is affecting code I care about (and regularly use to promote Sage), but it is also starting to come with policy implications due to its scale that are not easy to revert. 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. I concur. Best, Travis -- 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/8c8e2626-1517-43a9-89d0-03920712c0f2n%40googlegroups.com.
