William Stein wrote:
Hello,
I officially propose removing DSage from the Sage distribution.
Why?
1. Nobody has worked on the code for years.
2. The guy who originally worked on the code is gone, and can't
work on the code even if he wanted to (due to conditions of his job).
3. So far as I can tell, DSage is completely and totally broken,
and has been for *months* in shipped versions of Sage, so absolutely
nobody could possibly be using it. See
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7975
If you care, please vote.
[ ] Yes, I don't use DSage (don't even know what it is...), and
think it should be removed from Sage.
On the basis of
* It does not work
* The maintainer can't even maintain it if he wished now (people do change
jobs).
there does not seem a lot of point keeping it in standard, though I'd personally
probably prefer to move it to the experimental packages and add a note there
that it used to work, but no longer does.
http://qadpz.sourceforge.net/
might be a suitable replacement.
Distributed computing for some problems can be very useful.
So I would not remove it completely, but take it out of 'standard' and move to
'experimental'.
Dave
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