[bug#56729] [RFC PATCH 00/10] Add sagemath.

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello,

Am Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 06:20:22PM +0200 schrieb guix@ikherbers.com:
> Great! But note that I just sent an updated series with minor touch ups :).

thanks for the update! I just pushed an update of maxima (and wxmaxima), but
without your addition of ecl. Is there a good reason for this? In any case,
this should be done in a separate commit, since it is not required for the
update. For the record, I also tried to compile with gcl, but this still
failed.

> > Concerning sagemath itself, below is my very old version of an attempt at
> > packaging the library. Some things look reassuringly similar, my handling
> > of the number of cores is less nice, but I do delete the bundled packages.
> The `upstream' directory only seems to exist in the published tarball.
> So this should be no problem if we build from git.

Ah, interesting. Which one should we do? I personally tend to prefer tarballs
(as the official distribution mechanism of the project). Recently there has
been a preference in the Guix project for git repositories when autotools
are involved, as they make it possible to recreate the configure scripts
from their source. But since this is not the case here, the argument does
not hold.

Andreas