I have been working on patching a program that computes the homfly polynomial of knots and links, in order to use it as a shared library. I would like to include it as an optional sage package in the mid term, so we could use it in the knot theory module that is being worked on (by the way, ticket #17030 needs review).
The program is available here: [1] http://burtleburtle.net/bob/knot/homfly.html The last version was writen in 2010, and i haven't heard any news about it since then. I have my patched version in [2] https://github.com/miguelmarco/libhomfly. So, considering all this, which would be the best way to go? 1) Include the tarball from [1] in the package and patch it in installation time. 2) Create a tarball from [2] and treat it as upstream. I know that the standard way to go is 1), but in this case, it is not maintained at all. Of course, in the option 2), there isn't really a maintainer right now (i just dug into the code enough to patch the input/output, strimmed the printf commands, and changed memory allocation to boehm to prevent memory leaks; but i didn't look into the internals of how the computations are actually done)... but i think we would be slightly closer to it than in option 1). Thoughts? -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
