Isn't sage_numerical_backends_coin superseded by the properly maintained cvxpy backend included in sage itself (which can use coin in the background, among many other solvers)? Is there any reason to keep maintaining this at all?
El viernes, 3 de octubre de 2025 a las 6:24:29 UTC+2, [email protected] escribió: This doesn't work for me (maybe it does on non-editable installs, or with some other hacks like setting environment variables etc) and anyway this used an outdated and soon to be removed way to get the headers. So here is a proper fix: <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/40964> Please review On October 2, 2025 8:02:21 PM CDT, Marc Culler <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 1:50:37 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >By the way, to give you an example of careless, in my book, reviewing: >#40877. >(it wasn't actually even reviewed, the release manager just pushed it >through, over our protests). >It reverted #40765, which in particular made sure that there is a way to >find >Sage's cython directories, via sage.config. Now for instance >sage_numerical_backends_* (coin, etc) cannot be built because the old way >to find cython >directories is gone, and the new way got reverted. > >So now, there is a request to revive sage_numerical_backends_coin, and one >has to dig through the branch of #40765 to fish out the necessary bits. > > >I don't know what this about I was able to build >sage_numerical_backends_coin with no problems by doing what I suggested in >my email. Namely: > replace the symlink >sage/build/pkgs/sage_numerical_backends_coin/package-versiion.txt -> >../../../VERSION.txt by a file containing one line: 10.4 > >With the symlink the upstream url is for a tatball with version number >10.8beta5 which of course does not exist since the latest version on pypi >is 10.4. > >Once the tarball is downloaded the package builds fine and can be inported >into sage. > >- Marc > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d6cefc1a-d162-4965-a4b1-1533dcdb8d8an%40googlegroups.com.
