Martin Albrecht wrote:
On Monday 01 February 2010, Nick Alexander wrote:
I think I've done a LOT for Sage - I would request you do not
purposely break the PA-RISC support in MPIR, when it clearly passes
all your self tests on HP-UX. I do not believe thiat is an
unreasonable request.
I take issue with the claim that you have done "a LOT" for Sage. Let
me be clear: I appreciate the effort you put into porting Sage to
other architectures. But I question how many people are interested in
actually using Sage on those architectures.
Hi Nick,
I get your frustration and I appreciate how much it must be for you to react
so strongly.
We don't all have to agree what a big contribution is and what not. Some
people really appreciate the porting efforts some people don't care. I also
get that the additional burden scares people of, yet another platform one does
not care about to worry about.
I've contributed to sage in the math realm. Now I'm working on the port to
Open Solaris. I really hope that will not take a year or so.
Support for Solaris does not mean that every Sage developer has to work with
it and to support it.
+1
I really see no need for a competition who is more valuable etc. and I really
see no need to *take issue* with David's claim that he did a lot for Sage. I
personally think he did.
+1
One the other hand, we should all (including David) maybe take a step back and
appreciate that most people on this list are volunteers and that any demanding
tone will not get us anywhere. We all do it from time to time, when we are
frustrated, but it does not help anyone.
+1
You spoke wise words!
Jaap
Cheers,
Martin
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