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.



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