2015-06-12 6:18 GMT-03:00 Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be>: > On 2015-06-11 10:31, Julien Puydt wrote: >> >> Open software is about cooperation. > > Of course. The question is: what should we do if upstream does not want to > cooperate? I don't want to call names in this thread, but I have proposed > patches to many upstream projects which are part of Sage (usually they are > small bugfixes). The chances of actually getting a patch accepted by > upstream are unfortunately much smaller than I would wish.
I understand your frustration. I understand that sage needs to bundle all it needs because otherwise it would be pretty much impossible to install sage on old, or too new systems. But keeping as close as possible to upstream is really desirable. For example, I have some patches in a few packages in Fedora, to satisfy sage, but for others it is not easy... Right now, Fedora has sagemath 6.5 packaged, and I need to find some time to see if reasonable, and how I would patch sage to use a non released and patched pari, to update to 6.7 (skipping 6.6). > Some people think that Sage should only add patches to upstream packages if > they are accepted by upstream. This is frustrating, because it really slows > down Sage development. > > Jeroen. Thaks, Paulo -- 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.
