Marshall Hampton wrote: > I agree, that doesn't sound good. At the moment, I just want to check > out the sandpile functionality, so I don't think I will wade in and > try to improve glpk, or bug the author to do so. > > On the positive side, I think I now have packages that install > correctly, at least on my own mac. They are at: > > > http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/4ti2.p0.spkg > http://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/glpk.p0.spkg > > i.e. I have overwritten my previous broken versions. > This is also now trac ticket #6663 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ > ticket/6663). > > -Marshall
I'm not a mathematician, don't have a clue what this does, so I am probably looking at this from a very different point of view to most. But I don't think it's a good idea to include code that hides warnings. Again, it's a personal thing but when I look at web sites, like Wolfram Research's, which has 42 errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.wolfram.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 it always makes me wonder how seriously quality is taken. In contrast the Sage site has zero errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sagemath.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654 Mathematicians I've worked worth have always paid a lot of attention to detail - far more than I think engineers tend to. If someone covers up their compiler errors, it makes me wonder whether sufficient attention to detail is applied elsewhere. If someone like WRI, Maplesoft etc wanted to try to point out the disadvantages of Sage, showing how we hide warnings would be like giving them ammunition to blow us up with. I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but personally I would avoid adding things to sage that rely on code that is built like that. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
