2009/12/7 Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>: > On Dec 6, 2009, at 11:03 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to propose that SageTex be made a standard Sage package. >> To install: >> >> sage -i sagetex-2.1.1 >> >> And look here for a very nice paper about how to use SageTex. >> >> http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sagetex >> >> Dan Drake: "SageTeX is small, its inclusion cannot possibly negatively >> affect anything else in Sage, and it's very useful." >> >> Please vote: >> >> [X] Yes!* >> >> [ ] No, it should stay an optional spkg for now (it has been one >> for a while) > > * After seeing it demoed last weekend, I think it should go in for > sure. Is anyone willing to commit to officially maintaining/supporting > this spkg long term (e.g. for the next year at least)? It looks like a > self-contained enough package that this shouldn't be a big job, and > has been working quite well as an optional package for some time now. >
Robert, That is a great point/question. I talked with Guido van Rosum recently about the process for getting "standard packages" into the core of Python, and he pointed out that for Python they won't even consider including a new package unless somebody commits to maintaining it for 5 years. What do you guys think about doing something similar for new standard spkg's for Sage? I think 5 years is too long, given how new Sage is. 1 year or 2 years might be more reasonable, given the youth of Sage. -- 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
