Still waiting for review: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36380

I had hoped to get this into the Sage 10.4 release.


On Monday, June 10, 2024 at 10:23:13 AM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote:

> I'll remark that the approach of my PR 
> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36380 takes brial to the same level 
> as the existing optional packages bliss, coxeter3, sirocco, tdlib, etc. and 
> applies the same approach to the Sage library code depending on the 
> library: It defines a separately buildable, pip-installable distribution 
> *sagemath-brial*.
> The rest of the Sage library, still shipped as *sagemath-standard*, is 
> isolated from the problematic dependency on brial.
>
> That's an illustration of how the modularization project improves 
> portability and makes it easier for downstream distribution to carry the 
> Sage library.
>
> On Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 5:23:05 PM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote:
>
>> A milder change, demoting it to optional, is ready for review in 
>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36380
>>
>> On Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 12:29:55 PM UTC-7 Matthias Koeppe wrote:
>>
>>> I propose to demote this package to experimental.
>>> - It has been declared dead at least once -  
>>> https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/polybori-is-dead-it-needs-your-help/
>>> - It has no upstream maintainer (except for ermergency fixes by Francois 
>>> Bissey) - https://github.com/BRiAl/BRiAl/graphs/contributors, 
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/polybori/
>>> - It has been dropped from Debian testing, where it seems to block 
>>> SageMath upgrades (Sage is stuck at 9.5 in Debian/Ubuntu)
>>> - The conda and homebrew packages of brial lead to segfaults (
>>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/35595, 
>>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/34780)
>>> - It is disconnected from the advances in SMT (satisfiability modulo 
>>> theories) over the past decade (representative paper: 
>>> https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00028v2)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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