#9761: Adjust spkg/standard/deps to build Python before zn_poly
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Reporter: mpatel | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-4.5.3
Component: build | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by jhpalmieri):
I'm not sure that this should be a blocker, since the problem could be
viewed as a misconfigured PATH. Furthermore, as Dave says, William is in
favor of making a system-wide Python perhaps a prerequisite for building
Sage. I think this question should be settled at some point in sage-
devel. Then if people decide that Python should be a prerequisite, it
should be tested for in prereqs and it should be documented somewhere.
For now, though, I don't think it hurts making zn_poly depend on python.
> I though don't like making packages depend on Python just because some
developers appear to be unable or unwilling to write shell scripts
instead.
Why not? I don't like arbitrarily deciding that people shouldn't write
Python scripts. For me, writing, reading, and debugging Python scripts is
much easier than doing the same for shell scripts, and I'll probably do a
better job working in Python. Why put up barriers for people to
contribute, especially when so many contributors are mathematicians who
don't particularly want to learn to write shell scripts and who can't
remember, for example, whether to use "-a" or "&&"?
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