Blocking on GitHub, I presume, is due to disagreements on a number of topics, 
including the topic discussed in this thread. So it's related to the topic, and 
personal only as it was done by a person, not by an AI.



On 27 February 2024 22:17:50 GMT, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
>That's called "whataboutism". Invoking what you consider inappropriate 
>behavior by others is not relevant. Please stay on topic, and please follow 
>Sage's code of conduct in your posts.
>
>On Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 1:01:25 PM UTC-8 Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 27 February 2024 20:44:50 GMT, John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >Sentences like "At the moment you are actively breaking down the precious 
>> >project fabric, all in the name of you having your way" are personal 
>> >attacks. Please stop.
>>
>> Blocking on GitHub members of the project is not a personal attack? 
>> Of course it is.
>>
>>
>> >
>> >On Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 12:36:44 PM UTC-8 Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 27 February 2024 19:37:31 GMT, Matthias Koeppe <matthia...@gmail.com> 
>>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >On Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 10:50:55 AM UTC-8 John H Palmieri 
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >A pretty safe second choice would be to have "make download" also 
>> >> download 
>> >> >the relevant files for pip installation and tell pip where to find 
>> them. 
>> >> If 
>> >> >we implemented this second choice [...]
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >The problem is that such tooling, even if "trivial", would need to be 
>> >> >implemented, tested, and maintained as well. And typically this just 
>> does 
>> >> >not work when there is no developer who is actually interested in 
>> using 
>> >> it.
>> >>
>> >> It is a largely artificially invented, by you, problem, to shoot my 
>> >> proposal down. Besides, these tools are trivial to build and maintain, 
>> much 
>> >> easier than your ever growing and breaking maze of packages we don't 
>> even 
>> >> need to vendor.
>> >>
>> >> At the moment you are actively breaking down the precious project 
>> fabric, 
>> >> all in the name of you having your way: 
>> >>
>> >> you blocked me (without bothering yo even tell me) and perhaps other 
>> >> developers on GitHub, meaning that you effectively want to shut me up.
>> >> (Well, I had no other choice but to block you too, as a countermeasure; 
>> I 
>> >> installed this block about 12:00 GMT, today.)
>> >>
>> >> Of course it's easy to skip this message. But tomorrow it might be you 
>> who 
>> >> Matthias might block, for disagreements with him.
>> >> Why is this tolerated? This is a naked attempt to shut down the 
>> opposition.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >We are better off with improving the tooling that we already know 
>> *will* 
>> >> >continue to be used: Namely the tooling for creating and maintaining 
>> our 
>> >> >metadata in build/pkgs.
>> >>
>> >> Or it will be discarded as useless, because doing things the way 
>> projects 
>> >> like scipy do is better.
>> >>
>> >> Your package tooling is makework, repeating with worse tools what 
>> already 
>> >> is done by Conda, Homebrew, Linux distros, etc. We are mainly a maths 
>> >> project, not a distro project. Let us stay this way, and actually do 
>> more 
>> >> maths and less distro-like stuff.
>> >>
>> >> Dima
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Issues such as:
>> >> >- https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/36356, 
>> >> >- https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/37322, 
>> >> >- https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/37323, 
>> >> >- https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/37314
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
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