I proposed making the lrs spkg standard about a year ago; Micheal Abshoff then critiqued the optional spkg and gave me a list of things I needed to do. I think I have done all of them, and I would very much like to see lrs made standard to move the polytope functionality forward. I really doubt that lrs will cause significant problems, even on Solaris (I can compile it on t2, and I know nothing about Solaris).
The only reason I have waited to propose lrs as standard is that I found my last attempt quite depressing. Actually, I think our voting "system" isn't really formal enough. To be perfectly honest, I think the reality of it is that I need to convince you (William Stein), the current release manager, and then make a reasonable sounding case to everyone else. I would also like to propose biopython as standard too. Its a very mature project, almost entirely in python, and in the last year they have really cleaned things up (in terms of dependencies and removing deprecated code, and doing some nice refactoring of heavily used pieces). I have been waiting to have time to really focus on it; I think the only thing needed from a Sage perspective is some tests (it has its own very extensive test suite, but they aren't doctests). -Marshall On Sep 13, 7:29 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> 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? > > The last two packages that we added to Sage -- cliquer and ratpoints > -- both caused a lot of trouble. I will be much more careful in the > future about adding spkg's. > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
