On 27 July 2017 at 10:01, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2017-07-26 00:46, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > >> Would it be worth creating a fork of PARI >> > > What *exactly* do you mean with that? > > I feel like "fork" is just a word and you can already consider the > PARI-in-Sage to be a fork of PARI. > Just periodically release a latest github version of Pair under another name, with a "stable" version number - having test it well of course. > > you would avoid the problems of a distribution not accepting a git-master >> copy. >> > > I'm not convinced that distributions would accept a fork either (again, > this may depend on the precise meaning of "fork"). For example, distros > generally use GMP instead of the fork MPIR that Sage uses. In that case, perhaps my "solution" would not work, although perhaps distributions would consider that development of PARI is ongoing, but new releases are 2 years apart. That is pretty unusual. An ideal solution would be to try to encourage the PARI developers to release a new version more regularly, but you can't force anyone to do that. Dave -- 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.
