On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:26 PM William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Is there really going to be much activity on SageNB in the future? I > > appreciate that you fixed the packaging and dependency nightmare, but it > > seems that we are now (i.e. after #14840) at the point where we are > likely > > to just wait and eventually remove SageNB. I always found it frustrating > to > > do any kind of change on SageNB; there isn't really a good testsuite so > you > > basically have to check by hand that you don't break stuff. And none of > the > > core developers use SageNB so we don't really spot breakage that well > > either. More than anything else, we can maintain Sage easily because we > have > > a pretty awesome testsuite. > > > > Having to do two separate commits, one to Sage and one to SageNB, isn't > > really that much of a deal in comparison. Of course then waiting > > indefinitely for a new SageNB release *IS* a big problem. So as a minimal > > proposal, how about we just take over the SageNB github repo and make > > releases whenever we need them. Which really isn't all that often. > > +1 -- I agree 100% with everything above. If anybody wants added to > the repo, let me know. > > For what it's worth, +1 from me as well to Volker's proposal. That makes a lot of sense. Jason -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
