On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 10:08:32 Francois Bissey wrote: > > On 13/06/2015, at 22:00, 'Martin Albrecht' via sage-devel > > <sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > On Friday 12 Jun 2015 13:45:05 R. Andrew Ohana wrote: > >> What about this: > >> > >> Now: We work on making polybori an optional package in sage. > >> > >> * At least going by this thread, the number of people who use polybori > >> in > >> > >> Sage is small enough for it to make sense to have polybori as an optional > >> package. > > > > I know I might be outvoted and I haven't volunteered to just do the work, > > but I very much disagree with this. Dropping PolyBoRi as a default > > package makes Sage *a lot* less useful for me. > > > > Why does this need to happen now? > > Because it is a major blocker to getting sage ported to python 3.x. > That’s currently the only dependency that doesn’t build with python 3.x. > This is also the only thing using scons another currently python2 only thing > that we very much want to ditch.
Okay, so the problem is that the Sage library cannot be ported to Python 3 unless PolyBoRi is? That makes sense. As a corollary this would also mean that making PolyBoRi an optional package would mean to drop it entirely as it wouldn't work as soon as the transition to Python 3 is here (?) Cheers, Martin -- .www: https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com .pgp: 40BC 7F0D 724B 4AB1 CC98 4014 A040 043C 6532 AFB4 .xmpp: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de .twitter: https://twitter.com/martinralbrecht .keybase: https://keybase.io/martinralbrecht -- 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.
