On 2017-03-14, Travis Scrimshaw <tsc...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > 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.
Of course I'd be glad if polymake became optional. However, I don't know how to let installation fail with a more helpful error message. Best regards, Simon > 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.
