On Sunday, April 27, 2014 11:18:55 PM UTC+1, William wrote: > > It is not unusual to parse the output of a UNIX command.
But it is highly unusual to parse *your own* output. First we find out what is installed, then we render a nice ascii table, then we parse our own nice ascii table to convert it back to a machine representation. > > There are many optional packages that can be safely installed while > Sage is running with no danger. I would guess 90% of them have this > property, at least (assuming they aren't installed already). Would you buy a house from an architect with a 90% success rate? A car with a label WARNING: washing this car might fail and render your car useless? IMHO thats not good enough if you want to be taken serious. -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
