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

[Jerome BENOIT]

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Hi,

On 24/08/16 07:10, Harald Schilly wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>> Is Sage a distribution ?

Please put things in context:
Sage was then compared to Debian: from a Debian of view, Sage is only a package;
and Debian itself is a distribution as RedHat is.


> 
> Hi, sorry to drop in on this as a lurker unannounced, but in my
> opinion, SageMath is definitely a distribution.

Can it run a computer ?

 It's not something
> that's used very widely, but for a narrow target of higher mathematics
> (of a certain kind) it is very useful. It setups a rather closed
> environment, where all components are tested to work well together and
> have a clear version number (that can be used in scientific
> publications). Drawback is, that all that is more like organically
> grown and detached from the "outside world".

I really do not think that the `drawback' is a consequence of what you described before.
Keeping _stable_ version detached from the ``outside world'' is separate choice. 

 That's definitely a bad
> aspect, but hey, it still solves a lot of the tiny issues that arise,
> when you try to do computational mathematics in those areas.

This bad aspect is just a bad behaviour. A small delay will not hurt, on the contrary.
This bad aspect/behaviour has prevented so far for Sage integration in Debian, and in certainly
other distribution. This is really a bad aspect because it affects the sharing of Sage among
the scientific community.
Second, I guess it is possible to distribute a stable version a Sage that targets a large audience,
and to distribute a testing one for the few. This will fix the problem arose, and I may help to convince
the other party to accept your patches or to figure out some consensus.

I am afraid that you artificially maintain a difference here. It is more a false excuse than anything else.
Please do not over play.

Thanks,
Jerome


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