Dear Erik Le jeudi 19 octobre 2017 09:19:00 UTC+2, Erik Bray a écrit : > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdem...@cage.ugent.be > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On 2017-10-18 19:02, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > >> > >> This option commits us to maintain (unnecessary and dangerous, IMHO) > >> Sage-specifc SSL patches at least in R, Python and pip > > > > > > Really? Which Sage-specific SSL patches does this require in Python and > pip? > > > > It seems to me that R is the only package causing us so much trouble > with > > SSL. > > There *was* an issue in pip (not Python itself though that I can > recall--Python works fine without SSL support obviously). However, > the pip issue has since been fixed upstream (pip can work without SSL > for installing packages from sources other than PyPI, there was just a > bug with imports failing if the ssl module was not importable). > > If R still requires such a patch I think we should get really pushy > with upstream about getting them to accept it.
No : this policy decision is recent, and the "R Core Team" seems pretty adamant to switch to https repositories for all of CRAN. I seriously doubt that they would reverse this decision on the behalf of a bunch of mathematicians for whom R usage may be deemed as "peripheral"... > R should at least be > able to function without it, even if it means disabling package > downloads from CRAN which is fine. > Again : R is not only a software package but also an ecosystem. The 11638 (as of today) packages available to R users are a large part of R usefulness to its users. So, "disabling downloads from CRAN" is **NOT** fine (to them, at least...). And, BTW : which is your vote ? -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
