On 30 Jun., 16:05, "Georg S. Weber" <georgswe...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Great work!
>
> Actually, it makes me think about installing Gentoo just to test this
> (I do know I don't have the time for this, but it does wet my mouth
> nevertheless).

I take this as a compliment - thanks !

> Two further comments from me below:
>
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> > Outstanding issues:
> ...
> > -pexpect: version 2 is outdated, version 2.4 has trouble with graphics in 
> > the notebook
>
> I think William had tried several newer versions of pexpect than the
> one currently used in Sage, and the one and main drawback was a
> serious performance regression hurting all these newer versions. Did
> you check if/how the performance changed? I don't know exactly what
> test cases William used, but he will surely tell, if we ask him.

I can confirm this - newer version are extremely slow or do not work
at all.

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> > Future:
> ...
> > -gentoo-prefix: making sage available on other platform through 
> > gentoo-prefix,
> > Christopher is looking at this on windows and I have access OS X 10.5.
>
> This is excellent news, again I wish my days had 30 hours (or more).
>
> Cheers,
> Georg

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