On Saturday 20 August 2011, Simon King wrote: > Hi William, hi Martin, > > On 20 Aug., 21:56, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My impression is that this is *not* a totally new spkg, but simply > > some additional code of a similar nature being included in an existing > > spkg. If so, no formal vote is required for this, just positive > > review of the ticket + release manager agreeing. > > > > The ticket itself (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9562) is > > confusing, since in the description it points to a new spkg, but the > > rest of the ticket refers to simply updating an existing spkg. > > I just checked the diffs for the ticket description. It seems that, > until 6 or 7 weeks ago, it was attempted to fit M4RIE into the new > version of the M4RI spkg (the missing "E" means that it is for > matrices over GF(2), not GF(2^e)). In that sense, it is not completely > new. > > But apparently, Martin then thought it would be better to have two > separate spkgs: The update of M4RI was subsequently tracked on #11574, > and M4RIE became a separate spkg. Martin, correct me if I > misunderstood.
Hi, yes that's essentially correct. I started out with just updating the M4RI but since then others convinced me M4RIE should be an independent SPKG. Hence I split the M4RI SPKG into two. Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- 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
