On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 11:31:57 AM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> We should break sage up into dozens of smaller libraries that are hosted >> on pypi. I think pip is good enough these to support >> install/uninstall/versions/dependencies/c++ code, etc. Then the code >> you're talking about would be a new package there. A sage release would be >> a bunch of specific versions that we tested together. Etc. this is the >> future. > > > I don't quite see how this is a practical strategy in general. There might > be algorithms and procedures that can be implemented in a relatively > stand-alone fashion, but I expect that most non-trivial mathematical > functionality will work a lot better if it's built to make use of the > infrastructure that we have available, such as coercion framework. The > dependencies of the package would then quickly balloon to be all of the sage > library. Given how tightly coupled most of this is (a little change in one > place often requires at least doctests to be adjusted elsewhere), how does > one take care of the versions of the packages (and the rollout of those!)?
I don't expect to convince anybody with some abstract arguments, but with code later. It is possible to create a body of code (e.g., the Sage library) using standard packaging managers, which is properly tested, has dependencies, and is very useful. I'm sure this could be done with the Sage library, and it's what I would be doing if I wasn't doing SMC right now. -- William > > -- > 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. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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.
