On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 01:02:30PM -0500, Vincent Delecroix wrote: > I do really think that this is the best of what can > happen for Sage but I also think that we need an agreement of all Sage > developers that spkg can not be patched...
actually, it's the other way around. if there were no patched/bleeding edge packages within sage-the-distribution, there was no need for that toplevel build system -- you could just run standalone sagelib on top of anything you like. the idea is to run sage (the distribution) on top of (e.g.) debian. and only compile packages that deviate from upstream or the (e.g.) debian package. particularly, this enables you to *develop* sage within sage-the-distrition on top of any other software distribution without unnecessarily compiling hundreds of spkgs (like git). regards felix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
