On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:02 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I propose moving the polymake spkg to be experimental instead of > optional. If anybody cares, please respond to this email. It's > crystal clear having looked at the polymake spkg tonight that not a > single person has successfully installed polymake in several months. > > See: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4868 >
Hi, just responding to myself here, the following optional spkg's all fail to install on sage.math (a standard Ubuntu box): dvipng-1.8 gcc-4.2.1 hermes-0.9.4-linux jmol-11.5.2-src-v2 polymake-2.2.p4 I would like to deprecate all of them to experimental. Reasoning: * dvipng-1.8 -- available on any linux/os x system via standard package tools; has nothing to do with sage * gcc-4.2.1 -- this spkg exists only because Michael made it so I could try to build sage on some weird systems where the system-wide compilers were crap. It doesn't build on sage.math now, and it's not something almost anybody should use. * jmol-11.5.2-src-v2 -- this spkg exists to demonstrate that in theory jmol can be built from source. I don't think anybody actually has ever used it. Better would be a web page that contains the spkg and instructions on how to use it to make the binary spkg. * hermes-0.9.4-linux -- a binary-only spkg that doesn't (and doesn't fail gracefully) on any system I have. I don't even know what it does. I don't know where it came from. It hasn't been touched in nearly three years. * polymake-2.2.p4 -- I don't know if this builds on anything. See above. Since Sage doesn't binary link to polymake at all, it is better if polymake is installed from some official polymake binaries or whatever completely independent of sage. I want the Sage "optional" packages to *all* install fine on every system that we officially support Sage on. There should be a single command to easily install *all* of them, and another easy way to run all relevant optional doctests (that depend on all the free optional spkg's). -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
