Tobias Diez

@antonio-rojas Happy to hear. So this is good to go from your side? @mantepse > I have no idea how I could help in the reviewing process here. Any hints...

Thanks!

> Note that the `sage.categories` namespace package is not shipped by one distribution, but rather split into two distribution packages - sagemath-objects and sagemath-categories. I don't see how this is...

I've finished adding all meson files and the compilation of the whole sagelib code with meson is working now (see eg https://github.com/sagemath/sage/actions/runs/6744267881/job/18333765839?pr=36524). There are still a few rough spots but...

> I've only scratched the surface but I wanted to at least give this a try. Thanks a lot for looking at this! > The dependencies on my system are...

> I was trying to figure out why you don't get singular-related build failures on conda and it looks like the package `sed`s all of the source files to essentially...

> I'm not sure how much more is needed for a first version. There are still quite a few runtime errors (see https://github.com/sagemath/sage/actions/runs/6865030405/job/18668094365?pr=36524). How much of this should be fixed...

> I got the tests running and the first (not unexpected) problem I ran into is that all of the data files are missing. It should work if you set...

> 1. `meson setup` checked for all of the library/executable prerequisites, but it didn't check for the data prerequisites. So when I build sagelib and try to run it, I...

> > I don't have any issues with gap via conda. This error is discussed in https://github.com/olexandr-konovalov/gap/blob/e7b6485e83d0593dfc1415ba574807bc36948888/INSTALL.md?plain=1#L429-L438, but I'm not sure how to properly fix it. It might be that...