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Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Poll: Making sage-mode a standard package
From: "Justin C. Walker" <jus...@mac.com>
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On May 25, 2012, at 16:07 , William Stein wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Justin C. Walker <jus...@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> [X] Don't make it standard and close the ticket.  Include as optional package.
> 
> I'm curious -- why are people against sage-mode being a standard package?

For me, it's not about "sage-mode": it's got more to do with the number of moving parts.  Fewer is better, all things equal, and we ought to put things into Sage if there are really good reasons.

If it's standard, tests are needed.

Also, emacs, as delivered on a given platform may not change much, but a number of people use GUI versions of the app, which are separate from the regular distributions (Mac OS X, for example). Version change for those apps is unpredictable, and based on the user.

Is emacs even a standard part of Linux distributions?

Finally, I think most emacs users would have little problem installing an optional package, while most non emacs users aren't interested :-}  That's a rash generalization, but it resonates...

One guy's opinion...

Justin

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