On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 5:05 pm, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> OK, what should happen now? I like the patch (except for the name of >> the command-line argument); but it can't be applied because it makes >> doctests fail. > > I'd suggest the randomized order should be made available as soon as > possible. It requires a positive action to invoke it, and its > *purpose* is to break doctests. ;-) In other words, it is working > properly when doctests break. > > On the other hand, padding the example numbers to change the current > order (even if it is somewhat unpredictable) would seem to be too > chaotic. > > So maybe two passes are in order. > > 1. Allow the randomization switch, advertise problem areas, get > doctests cleaned up. > > 2. Test strict ordering, perhaps optionally for a while and clean up > further problems with advertisements of problem areas. > > 3. Make strict ordering the default. > > Rob
+1 to this plan. I've posted an amendment to my patch that implements just 1 for now, which I think should go into 3.4.1, assuming it gets a positive review. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
