[Slackbuilds-users] [SlackBuilds] outdated Python builds (in general) including mathics dependencies (years-old) need maintenance or taking it all over

[dchmelik at gmail.com]

The mathics.SlackBuild depends on outdated Python: numpy (possibly not 
too outdated), sympy (many years outdated) depends on mpmath (I used to 
maintain... current maintainer keeps very up-to-date)... but what I mean 
now is numpy3, python3-sympy (& python3-mpmath)... seems these python3 
when used for mathics (core not omnibus yet) result in it won't even run 
anymore (builds but is common python stuff deceptively 'successfully' 
builds except requires dependency different than accepted to 'build' 
(other times versions other than 'required' work).
         Is python3-sympy.SlackBuild still even maintained?  Now that 
depends on something I used to maintain, I hope python3-sympy.SlackBuild 
will either be updated in reasonable time or someone (maybe me, 
maybe/hopefully not) can take over... SymPy is a significant library 
even mentioned on wikipedia.org/wiki/Python.
         Another option is if anyone likes Python (I don't) and wants to 
maintain mathics.SlackBuild it's quite likely I will give them it (as 
long as hopefully you're better at Python than me, which would be very 
easy).
         I regret doing Python SlackBuilds for various reasons including 
as soon as SlackBuilds.org (SBo) administrators updated the templates it 
seems they were already years outdated: I no longer see any Python 
projects actually using the old setuptools rather than the newer pip, 
but there's no pip template (which would be needed for mathics omnibus).
--David Chmelik (abridged/legal Melik)