make lie part a standard SAGE package

[williamstein]

Either remove the dependency on curses, or make curses a standard sage package. Test building on more architectures.

And, there should be some sort of voting on this in sage-devel by the people who would maintain it.

18:01 < sage> it's different.
18:01 < sage> getting it to build is different than moving it into standard.
18:01 < mabshoff> So we use ncurses for now, but once it becomes standard we should remove the dependency.
18:01 < sage> moving into standard presupposes removing dependencies, worrying about longterm quality and
              stability, etc.

Component: packages: standard

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/609

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

comment:3

I am not sure this is desired any longer. William?

Cheers,

Michael

[wdjoyner]

comment:4

You could also ask, for example, Dan Bump or Mike Hansen how much the combinat code covers the computations implemented in lie.

[williamstein]

comment:5

This is definitely not desired anymore. Lie is not maintained or developed anymore.