On 1 April 2010 01:15, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Dr. David Kirkby >> http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/BuildFarm/sage-4.3 >> >> and report their success/failure. Wait until there is a successful build >> report from each supported platform before releasing. > > That would result in never releasing another version of Sage. Even > that page you point to above doesn't even come close to covering our > standard officially supported platforms.
Well then remove official support for so many platforms, and ensure Sage definately builds on those for which there is official support. >> It would be fairly easy to create a similar(ish) web page, where people >> listed what systems they have access to. So Jaap would for example enter >> Fedora and OpenSolaris. Hopefully someone else would have access to SUSE. >> Then if there are no reports of successful builds on SUSE, a very polite >> email could be sent to those with SUSE access, asking if they have have time >> to build sage-x.y.z.rc0, that they report it, since there has been no >> confirmed successful builds. > > And when they fail!?!?!?!? What, we sit there and wait for the SUSE > users to fix the problems? No, drop offical SUSE support if it's impractical to test Sage on it. > I'm just repeating what I said above: if the developers do not have > access to the hardware with the problems, then they can't fix them. > > -- William If developers do not have access to a platform, and/or they do not have the time to test Sage on that platform, then remove offical support for the platform. Given the following two possibilites, I know what one I'd chose. 1) Have official support for a large number of Linux distributions, even though there are not the resources to test on them. 2) Have a smaller number of offically supported distributions on which it is practical to test Sage on before an official release of Sage is made. I personally think number 2 is better than number 1. Do you agree? If so, the solution is obvious. IMHO, there's little point in having official support for a large number of platforms, if that results in broken Sage releases on the more common platforms. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
