On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Peter Lewis
On Monday 13 Feb 2012 19:03:55 Thomas Dziedzic wrote:
If you plan on adopting sage-mathematics, you should know that it is currently unbuildable on archlinux, and some other newer distros due to how it is built. It is currently out of date, and you wont be able to update it without fixing this.
Sorry, but I stand by my decision and will not be maintaining sage any longer.
I don't blame you at all, though this is a shame, since the idea of sage was so promising.
Perhaps distros and others like us should be making upstream aware of how difficult maintaining it can be, given the way they organise it all, and how this is leading us to drop it from our repos. Apologies if you've already tried this.
Pete.
I've already talked with upstream a while ago about relying less on internal patched libs/bins and their custom build system. They were strongly opposed to it because they wanted it to work on all systems consistently. Ironically its their system which is making me drop it due to being buggy and unreasonably complicated.