On 04/23/2015 04:56 PM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>>
>> Can't we work with upstream (the authors) to package these?
> For starters, none of these seem very active projects. In particular,
> hyperellfrob and bernmm have their last release in 2008 and 2009.
>
> Second, what if the authors don't care?
>
There are two kinds of don't care:
1. The author doesn't like autotools or doesn't want to accept
outside contributions.
2. The code was for an old project and the author can't be bothered
with it any more.
Both have the same solution: fork it and make releases on the sagemath
github or wherever. In the case of (2), this is obviously best for
everyone. If it's (1) instead, then most of our additions will be
independent of the "real" code making it trivial for us to merge
upstream changes. Then our fork will be the better fork (since it builds
easily and has all the same features), and people will use our fork
instead. Eventually the author will come around, or if not, that's not a
huge problem either.
We're essentially maintaining a fork now, so it wouldn't necessarily be
more work after we're done auto-tooling it.
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