On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Peter Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Monday 13 Feb 2012 19:03:55 Thomas Dziedzic wrote: >>> >> If you plan on adopting sage-mathematics, you should know that it is >>> >> currently unbuildable on archlinux, and some other newer distros due >>> >> to how it is built. >>> >> It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without >>> >> fixing this. >>> >>> Sorry, but I stand by my decision and will not be maintaining sage any >>> longer. >> >> I don't blame you at all, though this is a shame, since the idea of sage was >> so promising. >> >> Perhaps distros and others like us should be making upstream aware of how >> difficult maintaining it can be, given the way they organise it all, and how >> this is leading us to drop it from our repos. Apologies if you've already >> tried this. >> >> Pete. >> > > I've already talked with upstream a while ago about relying less on > internal patched libs/bins and their custom build system. > They were strongly opposed to it because they wanted it to work on all > systems consistently. > Ironically its their system which is making me drop it due to being > buggy and unreasonably complicated.
Moved sage-mathematics, sage-mathematics-spkgs(optdepends for sage-mathematics), fityk, and xylib(dependency for fityk) to the aur.
