On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:29 PM Timo Kaufmann <eisfre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For what its worth, we currently don't apply any patches in nix and at least > the sage doctests pass. A more standard build would still be nice though. > And since upstream is officially dead, I think giving it a new home would be > very good. +1 from me.
Most of the patches are build-related and test-related fixes, many of which seem to stem from issues on OSX. > Am Freitag, 7. September 2018 15:53:43 UTC+2 schrieb Erik Bray: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone know what that current status is of the upstream zn_poly >> package? According to its website >> http://cims.nyu.edu/~harvey/zn_poly/ it is "no longer maintained", >> though it has been re-released under a BSD-compatible license. >> >> Since its last upstream release the package for it in Sage has >> accumulated a number of patches as well, and I believe I may need to >> add one more patch to it for building properly on Cygwin :( See >> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26050 >> >> If it's alright, I would propose creating a new repository for it >> under the sagemath gitlab organization (or GitHub) which would become >> the new "upstream" for zn_poly. Then we can merge in all these >> patches; maybe even implement a new, more standard build system (I >> would be happy to do this). In fact the current "build system" is >> going to have problems long-term, as it currently consists primarily >> of a Python script that will not work, as written, on Python 3. > > -- > 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.
