Upgrade to symmetrica-3.0.1

[orlitzky]

I tagged a new release of symmetrica with all of the build/crash fixes from over the years:

• https://gitlab.com/sagemath/symmetrica/-/releases
• https://gitlab.com/sagemath/symmetrica/uploads/b3d8e1ad5ab2449c30bbc3147e7a5e53/symmetrica-3.0.1.tar.xz

A standard ./configure && make && make install should suffice, with no patching.

CC: @antonio-rojas @kiwifb @saraedum @timokau

Component: packages: standard

Author: Michael Orlitzky, Dima Pasechnik

Branch/Commit: 68ee17e

Reviewer: Matthias Koeppe

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29061

[timokau]

comment:2

The README states "The original developers of symmetrica at the University of Bayreuth are no longer active, but symmetrica is still in use in SageMath and elsewhere". Is there some source to this claim? Did anyone ever try contacting upstream?

[orlitzky]

comment:3

Replying to @timokau:

The README states "The original developers of symmetrica at the University of Bayreuth are no longer active, but symmetrica is still in use in SageMath and elsewhere". Is there some source to this claim? Did anyone ever try contacting upstream?

Yes, the primary maintainer passed away a few years ago and as far as I know there is no one else at Bayreuth working on symmetrica. A colleague of his, Michael Kiermaier, has given us his blessing insofar as is possible. And the other distribution maintainers are on board.

[timokau]

comment:4

Ah, now I remember the sage-devel discussion. That is sad to hear. Thanks for clarifying.

[mkoeppe]

comment:5

Is there anything in the new release that provides version information to programs linking to the library?

[orlitzky]

comment:6

Replying to @mkoeppe:

Is there anything in the new release that provides version information to programs linking to the library?

You can detect this exact version by looking at the soname (which was bumped) or some of the files we rearranged. We also took a few things out of the public API that were there by mistake (and so can be detected).

But long term, this is the way to go: https://gitlab.com/sagemath/symmetrica/-/issues/10

[dimpase]

Author: Michael Orlitzky, Dima Pasechnik

[dimpase]

Commit: 98b9e75

[dimpase]

comment:8

here is a branch, please test.
It builds with SAGE_CHECK=yes on macOS 10.15 with Xcode 12.

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New commits:

98b9e75

symmetrica 3.0.1 from the [GitLab](../wiki/GitLab) repo

[dimpase]

Branch: public/packages/symmetrica/symmetrica301