On May 26, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On 2012-05-25, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear all sage and emacs (or not) users, >> >> [ ] Make it standard at some point in the "near" future. >> [ ] Don't make it standard and close the ticket. >> [ ] Don't make it standard now, but don't close the ticket. > > [X] Don't make it standard and close the ticket. Include as optional > package. > > Also due to the painfully obvious next move: bundle in an emacs distro > compatible with the said sage-mode... > No, really, we'd hate to see a stream of complaints like "oh, it does > not work on my ZSuperDuperEmacs version 666.666.6..."
I'll just have to use the time travel capabilities of emacs to ensure compatibility [1] :-) > Someone mentioned that GAP has such a mode in a standard distribution, > but in fact it's horribly broken and obsolete, > $ ls -l /usr/local/src/gap/gap4r4/etc/emacs/ > total 248 > -rw-r--r-- 1 dima wheel 58933 Aug 15 2001 comint.el > -rw-r--r-- 1 dima wheel 4542 Aug 15 2001 gap-mode.doc > -rw-r--r-- 1 dima wheel 35909 Aug 15 2001 gap-mode.el > -rw-r--r-- 1 dima wheel 17587 May 8 2005 gap-process.el I asked a while back if they would include my update to gap-mode [2], and got a non-commital response. I guess it's about time to ask again. -Ivan [1] https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/future-bug [2] https://bitbucket.org/gvol/gap-mode -- 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
