Re: [sage-devel] Re: Old-style packages

2017-07-10 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2017-07-08 13:37, Simon King wrote: Sure. The meataxe experience was the reason why I tried optional extension modules. I don't recall *who* said so, but I was told that optional extension modules in the Sage source tree should only be used for functionalty that exists in vanilla Sage and can

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Old-style packages

2017-07-07 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2017-07-07 13:24, Simon King wrote: However I was told that the plan to add optional extension modules will not be supported. Who has said this? We do currently have several optional extension modules (in particular, one implementing matrices using meataxe, where you were involved in IIRC