Re: [sage-devel] What to do with research-y code.

2012-11-27 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi It would also be nice, if like R, one could run a system-wide install for users (e.g. in a university lab environment) and users could have optional packages either installed system-wide, or locally (e.g. .sage), and that those packages gracefully stated their minimum sage version to work on, o

Re: [sage-devel] What to do with research-y code.

2012-11-27 Thread David Kirkby
On 26 November 2012 17:19, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > Raising the bar on Sage code quality creates this limbo area of code > that's good enough to be shared/built upon, but not good enough to be > included in Sage. The combinat folks seem to have realized this from > the beginning (hence the combin

[sage-devel] What to do with research-y code.

2012-11-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
This is somewhat a continuation of the "permutations...again" thread, but I think the topic is much broader than that. Over time contributing Sage has become increasingly bureaucratic with the goal (I hope) of getting higher-quality more-stable code. Raising the bar on Sage code quality creates th