On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Start convincing us! I don't even know what "lrs" is. -- William > > 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 > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
