Very much appreciated Martin! Since this ticket doesn’t touch sagelib Gentoo, Debian and other distributions will be able to use fpylll-0.23 directly in sage-7.4. I’ll issue a revision of the sage-7.4 ebuild tomorrow and review the ticket if no one has done it by then.
François > On 19/10/2016, at 23:02, 'Martin R. Albrecht' via sage-devel > <sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > this is now https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21728 > > Cheers, > Martin > > Martin R. Albrecht writes: >> Hi there, >> >> Ximin Luo writes: >>> We can do "pre-install tests" with Sage 7.3, by doing a "dummy >>> install" using Sage's Makefiles, running the tests here, then >>> installing them to the "real location". (This requires some patching, >>> but we have achieved this already and it works.) However with Sage 7.4 >>> this is not possible, due to the fpylll situation. Packages in Debian >>> (and most other buildsystems) are built and tested as distinct units, >>> we can't build A, install A, build B, install B, then test A. >> >> I see the problem here. >> >>> So, a much better alternative of resolving the fpylll issue would be >>> to not have fpylll build-depend on Sage. >> >>> (1) I can see that it's possible to build fpylll without Sage, it will >>> just have a different API. Could we patch Sage-the-library to use >>> fpylll-without-Sage, then have Sage itself convert the non-Sage >>> integers into Sage integers? >> >> […] >> >>> So, what are the problems with (1)? If there are no problems, could we >>> patch this *before* Sage 7.4 is released? I would be happy to write >>> the patch myself, but guidance on where to start would also be much >>> appreciated. >> >> It’d be easy to make that work as far as tests are concerned, we’d lose >> convenience, though: none of the fpylll functions taking integer >> arguments would work out of the box. >> >> Alternatively, we could do the conversion on the Python level instead of >> C/C++/Cython. This way, it could be resolved at runtime. There’d be some >> overhead, but the Integer conversion functions aren’t really used all >> that much. >> >> I’ll give that a try. >> >> Cheers, >> Martin > > > -- > > _pgp: https://keybase.io/martinralbrecht > _www: https://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com > _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de > _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF > > -- > 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. -- 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.
