Re: Maxima in sage is built against ecl
On 10/03/2013 09:10, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Le 09/03/2013 11:09, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit :
>> On 09/03/2013 10:14, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>> Package: maxima
>>> Version: 5.29.1-1
>>>
>>> The maxima used in sage is built with ecl, while the sage in debian
>>> isn't. That will of course be a problem to package sage ; a very simple
>>> fix would be to just compile maxima with ecl in debian.
>>>
>>> But of course, simple doesn't mean correct : I saw #661803 where someone
>>> asks for an sbcl-built maxima, so the situation is going to be a pain if
>>> each and everyone wants maxima built against some variant of common
>>> lisp...
>>>
>>> I don't know how to handle the situation gracefully, so I open this bug
>>> CCing debian-science to discuss the matter.
>> Usually, during the package creation workflow, you rebuild the
>> application against the various implementation and you provide:
>> maxima-implementationX
>> maxima-implementationY
>> maxima-implementationZ
>>
>> It takes a X time more time to build and it is harder to maintain: paths
>> have to be different or packages have to conflict one against the other
>> (causing issues for the packages depending on this).
>> (example: hdf5)
>
> More time to build, bigger size in the repository
I don't think these are real issues.
> and a general pain,
This one is :p
Sylvestre
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