> Is there even a link from which Sympow can be downloaded so that one > can look through the code to see if it is worth salvaging. I can't > even find a webpage for Mark Watkins at the moment, let alone sympow. I asked that question on the 17th of February on this very same mailing list. No one could find a homepage for sympow at the time. There is a blurb about Mark on the University of Sydney's web page.
sympow is a runtime dependency of "sage", that is you don't need it to build sage itself. You only need it if you want the functionality. Basically if it doesn't link to the sage extension library it almost always can be installed later. Off those that can be installed afterwards a select few will result in sage missing essential functionality or not working altogether (maxima comes to mind). We have a precise (we hope) list of these in sage-on- gentoo. If you weren't using sympow you won't be missing it and nothing would break. Nothing apart from lfunctions/sympow.py calls sympow and I don't think anything in that python file is called from anywhere else - it just provides the interface to talk to sympow. In short sympow could be made optional overnight by dropping it from the deps file. Francois -- 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
