On 06/14/10 01:17 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
On 06/14/10 12:18 PM, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote:
As for Cython and gcc, the Sage notebook uses pure Python. I do
acknowledge that there's a minuscule chance that a Python update could
change runtime behaviour.
But what is used to build python? - gcc of course! So we have *at least*
the following possibilities which could result in a problem.
* gcc update
* python update
* someone patching python (it is already at patch level 8 or so in Sage)
* operating system update
* port to another platform (Cygwin, OpenSolaris and FreeBSD are all
being worked on.)
* someone's computer may be mis-configured.
I should have also considered anything that is needed to build python, could
change the behavior of python. That includes
* zlib - which will be updated in 4.4.4.alpha1
* termcap
* readline
* sqlite
* gnutls
* libpng
Some I accept are unlikely, but none are impossible.
Is there *any* other motivation for removing this from the testing,
apart from increasing the percentage of doctest coverage?
That I feel is the most important question.
If not, it
boils down to sacrificing quality for better looking statistics.
Which is what I think we are doing.
Dave
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