William Stein wrote: >>> I'm pretty much by default against adding any new standard packages to >>> Sage anytime soon. I can't think of anything even on the horizon. >>> Maybe some sort of linear programming code is being proposed. Can >>> anybody else think of anything? >> >> PIL and glpk are on the horizon. PIL has already recieved a positive vote. >> > > I had forgotten about them -- thanks for pointing them out. > Fortunately, those are both mainstream widely mature packages -- note > that both cliquer and ratpoints are highly specialized with (probably) > one developer. In contrast PIL is the standard Python imaging library > and glpk the standard GPL'd linear programming library. So that > helps. But this time, let's be very careful about how these actually > get included in Sage.
If something is obscure and presenting problems, should it be moved out of the standard packages and to optional? Certainly cliquer has issues on Solaris, with it forcing the use of gcc, then at another point failing to build it if can't find 'cc' (that was on the first release of Solaris 10 I would add - it is less problematic on later releases). Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
