On 24 April 2015 at 09:37, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Who is the author of hyperellfrob?
OK, I found it (it is actually called hypellfrob): David Harvey. David, if you are listening -- any comments? John > > There is a point in addition to Michael's: maintaining a fork which > only differs with respect to libtools packaging is one thing, but we > would also need someone to take responsibility for any bugs found in > the code, if the original author was not able, willing or available to > respond. > > John > > On 24 April 2015 at 00:54, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: >> 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. >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
