I wholly agree with Marc. For me, this is another instance of a user point of view versus a developer point of view.
Coming from someone who tries to make SageMath easily available for ordinary people, Marc's views are all the more valuable IMHO. Guillermo On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 at 17:24, Marc Culler <marc.cul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 8:05:09 PM UTC-5 Kwankyu Lee wrote: > > The motivation of the modularization project is to reduce the burden who > only needs some portion of the sage library, > and wants to use and develop the portion within the python ecosystem. > > > I would say that the motivation is to make it possible for a developer to > include a self-contained portion of sage in a separate project without > having to make that project as large as a full Sage distribution. > > > An individual mathematician who only needs some portion of the sage > library may install only his favorite distribution package. > > > As I have said so many times before, apparently to no avail, I strongly > disagree with this point of view. It is not reasonable to expect an > individual mathematician, or student, to be able to decide which portions > of Sage are needed, nor even to know which portions can be installed > separately. An individual who wants to use Sage should just install Sage. > All of it. And that installation should be very easy. It should certainly > not require deciding which portions of Sage might be needed in which > contexts. > > - Marc > -- 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/CANnG18_%2BiVEiMLyfwECMvZq5aCFsnB5Jd6K7uVD_LRczKKvOjw%40mail.gmail.com.
