On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 18:18:47 UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2016-01-27 17:52, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > I really do not understand why a complicated, buggy, hard to maintain, > > fix, or even read > > patches and scripts (e.g. > > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/master/build/pkgs/cliquer/spkg-install > > and > > its role in Sage 7.0 OSX binaries facepalm) > > should be preferred to an honest public git repo with our (trivial) > > changes laid out nicely > > I never said that I preferred a "complicated, buggy... spkg-install". Of > course I don't. You are presenting a false dichotomy. For an example of > how this is done without forking upstream, see planarity. >
Jeroen, I don't see how this example applies to packages without a decent build system. Note that planarity already had a ./configure && make install support. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
