>> In all honesty, I think you should throw golden bridges to people like >> Julien and Francois who are doing all this heavy-lifting work on the
What is a "golden bridge"? >> software engineering side of things. I think that having sage integrating >> with distro packages would not only be a benefit from the point of view of >> expanding the userbase, I think it would also greatly increase the software >> engineering quality of sage and related packages. I completely agree. The issue is one of resources. > This is also a good idea. François has been incredibly helpful with a lot > of stuff I was completely lost by in getting this or that to work. We > should be honoring that work as a community, because it is not very visible > and doesn't lead directly to lots of papers, but makes a lot of those > visible results possible by providing necessary infrastructure to doing > science! I certainly very much appreciate what François and everybody else doing distro integration is doing. The context of this discussion was that people were telling Volker/Jereon/etc.: - change how you are doing Sage releases - add major additional constraints to how Sage development is done - etc. I do not at all support adding such additional constraints to sage development. There's nothing incompatible about Sage development being done as it is now, and people also putting in a lot of work to integrate Sage into distributions. I personal don't think your suggestion above of how to do this would work (you didn't either0. I think a realistic solution is having a different branch of Sage, which is friendly to a distribution, and having a person work significantly (15 hours/week?) just on maintaining that fork. I'm all for that! -- William -- 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.
