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On 09:09 Fri 01 Oct , Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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> Hi Francois and everyone, |
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> > Have you tried to contact upstream (Tim Daly) to see if being packaged in |
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> > a distro is something they are interested in. |
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> > I personally would last rite it and possibly revisit the situation every so |
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> > often. If it doesn't even build I am not sure there is a point in keeping it |
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> > in the tree. |
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> I'm in contact with Tim Daly now, who seems very interested in getting |
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> axiom to work on Gentoo. The main problem that I see here, and also with |
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> the developers of Macaulay 2, is that upstream often does not feel any |
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> urge to unsplit their build systems. They just build internal copies of |
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> whatever they need. So here with axiom it is that the already internal |
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> gcl builds an internal gmp and upstream would like it better to apply |
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> our gentoo patches to that internal gmp instead of making it work with |
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> system wide gmp. I find it hard to communicate that internal copies are |
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> evil(TM). How do you guys handle that ? |
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You may communicate that they are simply a requirement for many Linux |
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distributions, and leave it at that. One way to satisfy both sides might |
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be to have the bundled libraries optionally built. Many developers of |
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packages with specialized dependencies want to make it easier to install |
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their code, so they want to have the option available (and likely on by |
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default). What I recommend the package should do is: |
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- probe the system to autodetect whether the dependency is installed |
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- allow manual overrides via configure flags |
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- if not found, then build/install the bundled version |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Science Team |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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