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Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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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 can always point to one of the numerous flameeyes blog post [1] |
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against bundled libraries, but I'm sure you can come up with a more |
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concise explanation. |
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[1] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/03/23/bundling-libraries-the-curse-of-the-ancients |
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Sébastien |
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