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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

vicvbcun <guix@ikherbers.com> skribis:

> This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
> Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
> far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
> to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.

This looks great already!  To make sure things don’t stall, we could
apply the patch series piecemeal, starting with the dependencies that
you think are ready, and leaving more time to polish the ‘sagemath’
package.

WDYT?

Regarding SageMath, my understanding is that it bundles lots of things.
In Guix, we’d like to make sure we do not use the bundled packages,
unless we practically can’t avoid it.  To do that, the best option is to
remove “third-party” (or similar) directories right in the ‘snippet’ of
the ‘sagemath’ package.  Could you give that a try?

Then, as you note, we’d rather run tests to make sure the package works
as intended.

Cc’ing Andreas, who I think is quite familiar with Sage.

Ludo’.