[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-25 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:52 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > > On Dec 24, 12:53 am, "Georg S. Weber" > wrote: >> Hi Michael, > > Hi Georg, > >> the wording "... was just not documented ...", "... documentation >> problem ...", has been used so often now in this thread, that it just >> moved up in my

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-24 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 24, 12:53 am, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > Hi Michael, Hi Georg, > the wording "... was just not documented ...", "... documentation > problem ...",  has been used so often now in this thread, that it just > moved up in my priority list (for this Example C Library theme) to the > lone ver

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-24 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi Michael, the wording "... was just not documented ...", "... documentation problem ...", has been used so often now in this thread, that it just moved up in my priority list (for this Example C Library theme) to the lone very top position. So I'll not do an "exampleclib-1.1.0.spkg" or so, bef

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-23 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 23, 1:31 pm, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: Hi Georg, > Wow, > > now that just had been updated > considerably during the last days (I was unsuccessfully chasing a > moving target there), it seems we can at least double again the > information about how t

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-23 Thread Georg S. Weber
Wow, now that just had been updated considerably during the last days (I was unsuccessfully chasing a moving target there), it seems we can at least double again the information about how to create a spkg (and about how *certainly not* to do it). Michael, I

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-23 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 23, 4:07 am, Martin Albrecht wrote: Hi, > Despite the concrete criticism of Michael I want to point out that I very much > like the spirit of what you're doing here! Yes, Georg is trying to solve a problem complex that needs to be solved, I just think he is going about it the wrong way.

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-23 Thread Martin Albrecht
Despite the concrete criticism of Michael I want to point out that I very much like the spirit of what you're doing here! Cheers, Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: martinralbre

[sage-devel] Re: Example C Library spkg

2008-12-23 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 23, 2:07 am, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > Hi sage-devel, Hi Georg, > It's way from being perfect, so any comments are welcome! > -1 on the that example, it is way too complicated and introduces many constructs that we don't have and IMHO plainly don't need. In detail: * At the very