On Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:00:24 AM UTC-7, P Purkayastha wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:02:45 AM UTC+8, John H Palmieri wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:51:42 PM UTC-7, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-03-28 17:08, leif wrote: >>> > Simply making CVXOPT depend on matplotlib is certainly easier, but >>> > IMHO not really appropriate since the former *builds* without the >>> > latter. >>> I don't see the problem. What's the harm with the easy solution? >>> >> >> >> > Upgrading matplotlib would trigger a rebuild of cvxopt. In principle, if >> this rebuild is unnecessary (that is, if SAGE_CHECK is not set), then it >> could add a long time to the upgrade process. In practice, cvxopt is not a >> dependency for anything else, and building cvxopt doesn't take very long, >> so I think this is not an important concern. >> > Is there any other reason to worry about the easy solution? >> > > The question is: will anyone remember two years down the line why cvxopt > had matplotlib as a dependency? >
If only there were some way to add explanatory comments to the "deps" file... -- John -- 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
