Le jeudi 09 février, Dr. David Kirkby a écrit: > I've had a couple of theories about why applications might fail. > > 1) Too mathematical, though that theory seems to have been dismissed, > as I gather other heavy maths has been funded.
I don't think so. > 2) The Sage development process is not exactly a shining example of > best practice in software engineering. I once suggested you purchased > some books on software engineering and handed out free copies to some > of your developers, since its clear some don't have a clue. > > It's remotely possible Google see this, and would rather someone > mentored in a different environment, which at least appears a bit > different, even if in fact it is no less chaotic. That second point convinces me much more ; consider : 1. Is it available readily in most distributions? No. 2. Does ./configure && make && make install give something in a reasonable time? Uh. No configure script?! Ah, make works... what?! It is compiling bzip2!? Stop! Snark on #sagemath -- 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
