No objections from me. Although we might want to try and improve the configure script before we make it optional if it can fail without helpful error messages.
Best, Travis On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 2:54:19 AM UTC-5, vdelecroix wrote: > > Dear all, > > Now that we are in the process of having a proper interface to polymake > (see [1] thanks to Simon) I would propose to move the package polymake > from experimental to optional. For those who don't know, polymake is a > CAS focused on polytopes (and toric varieties) written in perl. > > An annoying point with this pakckage is that it needs a proper perl > installation + some perl libraries. This is documented in the file > SPKG.txt that is hard to find for a user. The configure script of > polymake is not smart enough to stop with a clear error message if the > libraries are not present... (but perhaps it is a problem with our > spkg-install). > > Please tell me what you think. > > Vincent > > [1] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22501 > -- 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.
