And so you are going to leave me alone everytime I try to get code written and bug fixed, every time I scream for help.
And you are going to answer this thread only to defend your friend. And nothing will happen, because you will talk of feelings, and my aggressivity. And nobody will do anything. Nathann On 1 October 2014 11:36, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> wrote: > Hey, > > Let me clarify the situation. There are two useful features: plain > posets and posets endowed with a distinguished linear extension. At > this point, and since its implementation in 2008, Poset implements the > latter. This could use some clarification in the documentation. > > For a long while this went unnoticed. 20 months ago it was realized > and discussed that we needed both features, and that it would natural > if, by default, Poset would implement the former, like its name > suggests. At this point I believe the only spot in the Sage library > that uses the second feature is the linear extension code by Anne, and > it's specifying the linear extension explicitly, so handling backward > compatibility should not be too bad. > > Someone volunteered to fix the code, and did not get to do it. You > volunteered and tried hard -- which I really appreciate -- and did not > get to do it either. > > Nathann: I understand your frustration that nothing happened in 20 > months. I am really frustrated too; we are not doing well here. > > You may conclude that things don't happen by being kind and welcoming, > if you wish. I let you analyze whether being aggressive works any > better. But one needs to take into account all the time and energy > spent in non productive discussions and hurt feelings. For example, > Anne is now rightfully upset at being publicly blamed for the > situation, when she just used and followed the current specifications. > > I let you judge by yourself whether, instead, the original author, > Franco, should be blamed for not clarifying the situation on the onset > and not implementing both features from the onset. > > I am personally grateful that he wrote the poset code, even with its > current limitations and despite all the time I already spent > fixing/working around some of them. Still this has been less time than > if I had had to write it myself from scratch. > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/WXNmH3PL7kY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
