On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Gary Furnish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll move this to an spkg.
With it moved to an spkg, I now vote +1, which makes it unanimous and official that glib-lite goes into Sage (as an spkg). -- William > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 AM, mabshoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > <SNIP> > > > > > > Furthermore, I intend to help > > > > maintain the C algorithms. I fully intend to work on them actively if > their > > > > speed is not sufficient. Making a seperate spkg dramatically increases > the > > > > difficulty of active development. > > > > > > Why??? I could have said the same about Pyrex two years ago, and it > would > > > have been silly. So could you please explain why this is true of > glib-lite. > > > I'm not saying it isn't try! I just don't see why it should be. I know > > > you're extremely good at writing and arguing points, so please be > patient > > > with me and explain why "Making a seperate spkg dramatically increases > the > > > difficulty of active development." Again, I'm *not* at all sure I'm > right! > > > And you've been much closer to that code than I am, so you're much more > likely > > > to be right. That said, you've not given any argument, and this is the > time > > > to work these things out -- that's why we have a vote, etc., for > packages. > > > > > > -- William > > > > > > > Having slept on the whole spkg vs. sagelib issue: I think doing glib- > > lite in an spkg might be a little more work right now, but it forces > > us [ehh Gary] to factor out the pbuild bits or write a makefile that > > uses a bunch of env variables determined by spkg-install. Sticking > > that in an spkg-install isn't that much work. Making the makefile > > independent of pbuild would also increase the chances that other > > projects would actually use the code. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---