On May 26, 2012, at 2:46 PM, P Purkayastha wrote: > On Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:31:11 PM UTC+8, P Purkayastha wrote: > On Saturday, May 26, 2012 5:50:12 PM UTC+8, 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..." > > 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 > > Dima > > For that matter even the vim plugins are broken. See > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-science/msg_a74bfb4eb0abd88584885bab90d7e891.xml > > > What I meant to say is that, in the long term there is a possibility that the > package might become unmaintained. No offense to Ivan, but this is a fact of > the way OSS works. :)
No offense taken. Who knows what's going to happen after I graduate for example—maybe I'll get a full time job fixing bugs in Sage, or maybe I'll be flipping burgers. :-) It's important to remember that if it's standard someone _has_ to maintain it. Of course, it's also more likely that someone _will_ maintain it. -Ivan -- 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
