On Wed, 24 Aug 2022, 03:49 Nils Bruin, <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > hybrid. > > [it provides an immediate solution to an urgent problem *and* it provides > a reasonably automated path for updating. It does indeed put some files > under sage git control that shouldn't be, but compared to the urgency of > the problem at the moment, that's minor. > > It looks to me that avoiding the git control problem requires there to be > a tarball to point at if we don't want to insist on git as a prereq for > building from source. > Since that tarball does not exist, we'd need to make it. We did that in the > past for nearly all the spkgs. We'd basically need to have a separate repo > somewhere "gnulib-for-sagemath" that maintains a tool to extract and > package the required files for sagemath in an appropriate package and then > host that resulting package (a tarball, I presume) somewhere. We'd just > make a derivative of gnulib that DOES have tarball releases. On itself, > that sounds like it could have merit, but one would weigh that against the > cost. On the plus side: once the tarball is up, it would likely not change > for *many* years. Only when we run into trouble would one have to pull the > lever to generate a new release. >
we can of course do this, in sagemath org on github. We don't need to do anything to gnulib source. It is very little work - just put a gnulib clone there and make a (GitHub) release. Updating it is just refreshing the GitHub fork, and making a new Github release. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d571b46b-d973-4453-ae97-aa76c36cd676n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d571b46b-d973-4453-ae97-aa76c36cd676n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq195xG%3DoSt%2BfydeYoJX2MnTPnhBBZUzjrZKo6CNSwV%3D0g%40mail.gmail.com.
