On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:55 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-01-26 17:08, William Stein wrote: >> >> He said that only dead code in maintenance only mode >> should be added, etc., etc. > > > So we can never add new features to Python? That's depressing...
Heh, I'm just reporting what he said to me at lunch (in 2009). And he did indeed make me go from being excited at the prospect of getting Cython into Python to me being depressed. Python is from the early 90's, so maybe by 2009, Guido had already had a lot of experience being burned out by trouble with contributions not being maintained... These things go through cycles. >> I'm >> actually really shocked that in all the discussion about getting >> packages into Sage, we fixed on voting procedures and other stuff, but >> totally missed by far the most important point -- getting somebody to >> solidly commit to maintaining the package on all platforms for a given >> amount of time. > > > That's not realistic. I am more in favour of making it easy to downgrade a > package from standard to experimental if problems appear. If cliquer gives > problems and nobody wants to fix it, then remove it from standard. Not a big > deal. Many standard packages in Sage -- at least the ones we were adding in 2008 -- once added, get things built on them, and can't be removed without massive pain and effort. That was the context back then. - William -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" 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-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
