On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM, David Roe <r...@math.harvard.edu> wrote: > +1 from me as a good goal for 4.0. But I don't have a whole lot of > experience with dealing with spkgs, and I'll be working on improving > p-adics, so I probably won't be helping much. > David > > 2009/4/23 Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu> >> >> I'd like to add as a goal that Sage 4.0 works with versions of its >> dependencies available from the relevant upstreams. >> >> For context, I would very much like to be able to package Sage 4.0 for >> Debian once it comes out, since I find the current state of having Sage >> 3.0.5 from last July to be somewhat embarrassing. However, updating Sage >> in Debian is really difficult because most Sage releases use a version of >> at least one of its dependencies that could not reasonably be packaged for >> use both in Sage and outside of Sage. This has been a problem both for my >> efforts and for the people working on making Sage available in Fedora. >> >> I like that Sage has a development model where fixing a bug in Sage >> resulting from a dependency does not require waiting for an upstream >> release, since this helps keep progress moving quickly. However, I would >> find it incredibly helpful if every 3 or 6 months Sage did a release that >> worked with upstream releases of its dependencies. Those releases would >> then be packaged by distributions. This model is very similar to how a >> lot of projects do unstable development for N months before doing a stable >> release that can be shipped by distributions. It seems to me that major >> releases like Sage 4.0 would be good candidates for these. >> >> I want to be really clear that I'm not asking that Sage change its rapid >> development model of aggressively fixing bugs in its dependencies. I'm >> only requesting that Sage occasionally do a release that works with >> dependencies that are available from the relevant upstream developers. >> >> What do people think about this proposal?
-1 from me as a goal for 4.0, since we already have a very daunting challenge to accomplish the current goals for 4.0 in the timeframe we have set, unless of course you are volunteering to do all of the work :-). The proposal seems very reasonable post 4.0 though. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
