[sage-devel] Re: poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-23 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Salut Sébastien! On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 03:14:59AM -0700, Sébastien Labbé wrote: >Nicolas, can you describe the developement community which is behind >dot2tex. Is it only one guy? Is it a team? How is dot2tex maintained? Is >it a package that never needs fixes? >So in th

[sage-devel] Re: poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-23 Thread Sébastien Labbé
> Description of dot2tex > -- Nicolas, can you describe the developement community which is behind dot2tex. Is it only one guy? Is it a team? How is dot2tex maintained? Is it a package that never needs fixes? At #13624, I got a problem with it and reported it upstream [2]

[sage-devel] Re: poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread leif
Volker Braun wrote: How about a new category of "extra" spkgs that are nice to have but not really required. We could even install them by default, if wanted. I'd say that would probably make sense for dot2tex (as suggested in my other reply), but not really for graphviz. Perhaps only if yo

[sage-devel] Re: poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Volker Braun
Isn't graphviz under the EPL? Thats not so bad. And we don't even want to link to it, so its perfectly fine for us to distribute it. How about a new category of "extra" spkgs that are nice to have but not really required. We could even install them by default, if wanted. Perhaps only if you hav

[sage-devel] Re: poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg

2013-05-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Will it become the 1st standard package that needs an optional package, i.e. graphviz, to function? On Wednesday, 22 May 2013 22:32:59 UTC+8, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote: > > Dear Sage developers, > > This is a poll for making dot2tex a standard spkg. > > - [ ] Yes, make dot2tex a standard