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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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Cheers, |
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Thomas |
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Thomas Kahle |
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