On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 20:40:07 UTC, Volker Braun wrote:
>
> I created http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19967 for dealing with cliquer
>

ready for review, by the way... 

>
>
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 3:36:24 PM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote:
>>
>> For the record, the OSX binaries are broken because cliquer fails to 
>> install; the log contains:
>>
>> error: 
>> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool:
>>  
>> changing install names or rpaths can't be redone for: 
>> /Users/vbraun/Code/binary-pkg/source/SageMath/jc4b6yulaujayb9sr94ia88eourzeqip0oidmas391yaj24ng0bmdu/local/lib/libcliquer.dylib
>>  
>> (for architecture x86_64) because larger updated load commands do not fit 
>> (the program must be relinked, and you may need to use -headerpad or 
>> -headerpad_max_install_names)
>>
>> Of course errors are not caught in cliquer's spkg-install so the 
>> compilation continues from there. The binary then doesn't work, of course.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 1:36:45 PM UTC-5, Nathann Cohen wrote:
>>>
>>> > Nathann: 
>>>
>>> William, 
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to say that the situation is not as simple as "You suggest, 
>>> and you are happy to see people doing it for you". 
>>>
>>> Sometimes, people do stuff because nobody would do it otherwise. They 
>>> feel responsible as members of the community, and so give it a try. I 
>>> swear: trust me. And by merely "suggesting stuff and waiting for 
>>> others to (happily) do it" the truth is that you sometimes *use* those 
>>> people. 
>>>
>>> Once, on a trac ticket, I saw something like that: "Of course this 
>>> implementation is unnecessarily slow, but someday somebody will see it 
>>> and improve it". For somebody like me, it comes very close to forcing 
>>> me to improve it: because I do not accept to see a very obviously slow 
>>> algorithm in Sage when I see a clear way to improve it: we deserve 
>>> better (*). 
>>>
>>> I can only pray that not too many people will grow this "much bigger 
>>> picture longterm strategic view of things" that you mentionned. 
>>> Because each time it happens (you cite Nicolas Thierry as an example) 
>>> we lose a developer and those they take with them. 
>>>
>>> And there is work to be done. Work which will only be done by those 
>>> who remain. Some key people who, like you, are hardly repleacable: how 
>>> many persons do you think have what it takes to change Sage's build 
>>> system? 
>>>
>>> I'd say three: Volker, Jeroen and you. Perhaps there are others: I 
>>> don't even know enough to give the full list. 
>>>
>>> But you cannot expect this to be done by one person, it takes a *lot* 
>>> of time and skill, and we are not enough. 
>>>
>>> So please, now that you have seen the "much bigger picture longterm 
>>> strategic view of things", come down here and get your hands dirty. We 
>>> can't do the job if those who know how to do it think that they are 
>>> above it. 
>>>
>>> Nathann 
>>>
>>> (*) On this ticket, they *knew* what was wrong. They just did not care 
>>> enough to spend the time. 
>>>
>>

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