On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > The buildbot tests patches on top of the latest release, not alpha/beta > versions. There was some discussion on sage-devel about this behavior. > Although annoying, it might not be such a bad idea to keep track of the > dependencies of your patch back to the latest official release.
I really disagree strongly with this. If I were writing a patch now I would definitely base it on 4.7.alpha4, especially as it may well depend critically on other things merged since 4.6.2. If the buildbot cannot handle that, I'm not going to put myself out for a machine's convenience. 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 > -- 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
