Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSoC project: make the Sage build system more distribution friendly

[Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>]

Le 16/03/2013 18:36, leif a écrit :
> Julien Puydt wrote:
> > Le 16/03/2013 16:57, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
> > > == Desirable skills: ==
> > > familiarity with shell scripts, makefiles and C libraries
> >
> > You forgot python.
>
> Autotools, C++, Common Lisp / ECL, Cython, Perl, ... ? ;-)
>
> Do they know about Sage-on-Gentoo, Jan's Ubuntu PPA, ... ?

Ubuntu's sagemath ppa is a monolithic package, hence has nothing at all 
to do with Tobias' proposition.

The proposition isn't to fork sage to get it into a single distribution, 
but to modify it with upstream so any distribution can easily package it 
correctly.

Snark on #debian-science and #sagemath