2008/10/28 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:21 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Oct 27, 7:17 pm, "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >> >> Hi, >> >>> Since this requires a C compiler in order to work anyway, it seems >>> like it should be an optional package. >> >> cough *Cython* cough :) >> >>> For those that use it, it >>> seems like doing an extra "sage -i" isn't asking for that much. The >>> code to make it easy to use from Sage should still go into the main >>> library. >> >> We had a vote on this a month or two back and then then consensus was >> not to include gp2c per default. I agree that the patch should be >> merged, though. > > Yes, that's what happened. > > I think the better way for gp2c to get into sage is for it to be > standard in pari itself. Then it will automatically be in Sage. > Have you proposed that it be included standard in pari yet? > > By the way, Karim Belebas told me numerous times that Sage > should use the latest snapshot version of pari instead of the > stable version we use now.
The other thing Karim told us was that pari (and gp) were changing fast and that gp2c was not keeping up, so it will only get harder if people expect all gp scripts to work under gp2c. John > > -- William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
