Re: [sage-devel] Indexing Sage external packages (was: Giving back to the community)

2016-12-04 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2016-11-28 20:14, Vincent Delecroix wrote: - Relying on Python packaging and PyPI might be too limited for Sage at some point (tricky dependencies, Sage recompilation needed) I would say it's limited only because it deals with Python packages, not other libraries. I don't quite get what you

Re: [sage-devel] Indexing Sage external packages (was: Giving back to the community)

2016-11-28 Thread Vincent Delecroix
Thanks Samuel for poping this discussion. on sage-devel. I have only have random remarks: - Among mathematical softwares that offer external packages the example of R is particulary impressive (9598 packages) [1]. - Relying on Python packaging and PyPI might be too limited for Sage at some p

[sage-devel] Indexing Sage external packages (was: Giving back to the community)

2016-11-28 Thread Samuel Lelièvre
Dear sage-devel, This is a follow-up to a discussion on sage-support [0] in which the original poster asks a question which I will summarize as: Having written some amount of Sage code for a project, how can I best package it and share it with the community? Among the answers, Vincent sugges