Should we change the spkg-check file for the python spkg? Are there *any* machines on which it passes? I've tried vanilla python-2.6.6 and python-2.7, and while I can get python-2.7 to pass self-tests on one machine (sage.math), it fails on every other machine I've tried: a Mac OS X 10.6 machine, t2.math, and a handful of skynet machines. I think python-2.6.6 fails on all of these, including sage.math.
It would be nice if you could do $ SAGE_CHECK=yes $ export SAGE_CHECK $ make and have some chance of Sage building successfully, but the python spkg prevents this from happening, and on many linux and OS X machines, it may be the only obstacle. (R caused trouble for me on Solaris, also.) So what should we do with the python spkg-check file? It would be too drastic to ignore all failures. Of the many tests which python runs, are there some whose failures we can safely ignore, and so we should just skip them? For example, test_distutils fails on sage.math (in 2.6.6), and test_mailbox fails on the skynet machines; are these failures acceptable? (Along these lines, we might get some improvement by switching to Python 2.7. Is anyone working on this?) -- John -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
