On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 6:27:28 PM UTC-5, William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Franco Saliola <sali...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Here is a mini report on Sage Day 65. I'm not an organizer so this is > not > > official. > > Thanks to Anne Schilling for helping to prepare this. > > > > - 24 tickets on trac are tagged with `sagedays65` or `sd65`. Some of > these > > have > > been positively reviewed and marked as fixed. Some are waiting for > review > > (hint, hint). Several of these tickets include contributions from new > > users. > > > > - Installation troubles: > > > > - several people had a hard difficult time installing Sage on their > > machines (8-10 people) > > > > - there were people who did not have a working development version > on > > their > > machines by the end of the week (4-5 people); two of these people > were > > the organizers of the Sage Days > > This is a bummer. It gives me even more motivation to make > SageMathCloud Sage-developer friendly. I'm also curious if anybody > has any -- possibly *radical* -- suggestions about how to address this > problem using new ideas. >
Most of these problems were related to installing on Macs: various different OS versions (10.10, 10.9, 10.8, ...); XCode versions; command line tools out of date; .... Perhaps an enhanced build test system might help. Some ideas (mostly questions): (1) Would it be possible to maintain a list of known compilation errors? The build process could check online if the error message matches one of the known issues and then return links to a page with information (possible workarounds, appropriate trac tickets)? (2) Could we release bundles or dmgs or whatever they are called for the *developer* version for OS X? (3) A computer scientist who participated in part of the Sage Days said that perhaps using Travis CI could help with some of this. I don't know anything about this, but maybe someone with Travis experience could say whether this might help? Franco -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
