[Debian-science-sagemath] pari-sage or pari ?

[jdemeyer at cage.ugent.be]

> 1) I don't understand why it would be very hard for sage to stick to  
> released versions of packages : each and every other open source  
> projects does this.

Maybe those projects do not have so many depencies, or their  
dependencies cooperate more? Or worse, they drop or delay features? I  
honestly have no idea.

> 2) Releasing development version of some upstream in a stable  
> version of sage is more than impolite towards said upstream : it's  
> hostile.

I don't get why.

> If there is a bug, the user gets said "Oh, it's a problem with sage  
> and its pari 2.8-pre314159~git271828+p42", but understands "Oh, it's  
> a problem with pari".

Which is true, right?

> 3) One can argue that pari is moving too slowly... that might be  
> true, but if the current upstream is too slow... become upstream and  
> make it fast!

You mean fork PARI? What would upstream PARI or Debian think of that?



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