Re: [sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-13 Thread François Bissey
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:35:16 Craig Citro wrote: > > If you work on getting this merged upstream as a bug that's a good > > selling point for us. We can produce a patched ebuild and possibly > > get it accepted. > > Do you have a bug tracking number of some kind for it? > > I just submitted the bug

Re: [sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-13 Thread Craig Citro
> If you work on getting this merged upstream as a bug that's a good > selling point for us. We can produce a patched ebuild and possibly > get it accepted. > Do you have a bug tracking number of some kind for it? > I just submitted the bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue7689 I'll let you know as

Re: [sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-11 Thread François Bissey
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:53:14 Craig Citro wrote: > Hi Francois, > > > While Carl Witty mentions that python shouldn't be patched directly > > as it would make it harder to package sage for distros, Craig Citro > > went ahead and did just that. > > I couldn't find a ticket or a thread describing the

Re: [sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-11 Thread Craig Citro
Hi Francois, > While Carl Witty mentions that python shouldn't be patched directly > as it would make it harder to package sage for distros, Craig Citro > went ahead and did just that. > I couldn't find a ticket or a thread describing the why of this > decision. Basically, the thought was that th

[sage-devel] Question about pickle in python

2010-01-11 Thread François Bissey
Hi all, The work on porting sage to Gentoo has made good progress but we got a bloody nose on the issue of pickle I am referring to the following thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sage- devel/browse_thread/thread/583048dc7d373d6a/735ec83cf845d145 and this ticket: http://trac.sagemath.org