On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 07/03/12 23:06, Keshav Kini wrote: >> >> IMO it's usually better to depend on someone else's code than to absorb >> it, because then you can more easily pick up bugfixes later, and also it >> makes it clearer that we are benefiting from their work. To choose >> absorbing code instead of depending on it simply because it's small and >> maintaining a package seems like a non-zero amount of work seems to me >> like the wrong thing to do. >> > > I agree with this. It's a better long-term solution.
Added the code as an spkg or to the Sage library unchanged (without adding doctests) is equivalent from this perspective. Code put in the sage library as a file unchanged is no more or less "absored" than code put in an spkg. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
