On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Stefan Krastanov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The issue is that `mpmath.whatever` and `sympy.mpmath.whatever` are
>> considered by the interpreter to be different classes even if the same
>> versions of mpmath are used, hence methods like `__add__` raise
>> NotImplementedError. I have heard this issue to be raised occasionally
>> before.
>
> Right. But again, playing the devil's advocate, this would be an
> argument for removing mpmath from sympy completely.
>
> There is also another option (unfortunately not perfect either, see
> below), if we choose to depend on mpmath --- we can use git
> submodules. The sympy master hash then contains the exact hash of all
> submodules. If we update mpmath in sympy, all we need to do is to pull
> in more patches for mpmath from its own repo, and then we need to
> create a new commit in sympy. Then when you checkout any previous
> commit in sympy, and do "git submodule update" (unfortunately you have
> to do this by hand), it will checkout the *exact* mpmath that was
> known to work with that particular commit of sympy. So we would still
> only support and test exactly one exact version (commit) of mpmath for
> each commit of sympy. In other words, almost no change to what we do
> now. We would need to do something like:
>
> rm -rf sympy/mpmath
> git submodule add https://github.com/sympy/mpmath sympy/mpmath
>
> where the https://github.com/sympy/mpmath repository would
> unfortunately only contain the "mpmath" directory of the mpmath repo
> (this point is not very satisfactory though). So for this last point I
> am now happy with this solution either, but at least it's good to know
> that git submodules fix the problem of what exact version of mpmath we
> depend on as time goes.

Actually, one can use a symlink to fix this issue. I created this PR:

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/2267

if anyone wants to play with it (see the PR for details).
Note that I am -0.5 and Aaron is -1 on this PR,
but it is nevertheless good to know about this approach.

Ondrej

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