On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 4:18 PM Travis Scrimshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, you can. You should create a ticket (possibly more if it makes sense > to break it into smaller chucks) and push your code there as you work on it > so people can look at it. > > Someone will likely suggest that you should develop it as a separate > package built on-top of Sage. However, I only see this as a way to be lazy > with respect to documentation and tests, and it will not get the same > visibility that it would being included into Sage. If you are developing it > not based upon Sage library itself and could be a standalone project, then > you might want to consider that and have it be included as a dependency of > Sage. > In fact you should seriously consider building code as a separate package built on top of Sage. See the active discussion at https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/sage-devel/6gO4bzTZfuU There are of course pros and cons to developing packages that depend on Sage versus code that is integrated as part of the core Sage library, and Travis is perhaps not giving you the absolutey most balanced perspective. Most Sage developers (including me to some extent), don’t really have a sense of how modern non-monolithic open source software is developed these days... It’s fine; I’ve definitely not done a good job trying to educate people, and I’m incredibly grateful to Marc Masdeu, Nicholas (and many other French devs) for putting hard work into making it through certain growing pains. Sage is now over 1 million lines of code in the core library; and that doesn’t include all the packages that are standard parts of Sage. The Sage core library is also growing recently more quickly than in last decade, which just means that the release management (of Voker and others) and structural refactoring work (e.g., cypari2), is more important than ever. – William > > Best, > Travis > > > > On Monday, July 24, 2017 at 3:03:49 AM UTC-5, Nikhil Pappu wrote: >> >> I didn't find much on Ergodic theory in Sage. Can I start working on an >> Ergodic theory module in the near future? Can it be a part of Sage or >> should it be developed elsewhere (in one of Sage's many packages)? >> > -- > 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. > -- -- William Stein -- 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.
