I am currently revising a paper that I submitted in March 2015. Parts of the results heavily rely on computations in Sage; at that time, Sage 6.5.
It turns out that the old code no longer works with Sage 7.0. It is also impossible to compile Sage 6.5 nowadays because the infrastructure changed (it tries to download http://www.sagemath.org/packages/upstream/patch/patch-2.7.1.tar.gz which no longer exists). For completeness I mention that none of my old code triggered a deprecation warning and that it worked 11 months ago. Bottom line: I cannot reproduce 11 month old results anymore. Adapting the code is a frustrating and lengthy work. And it does not solve the problem, because new releases of Sage will again introduce changes. At https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/tDKb8QF97VY/tc8jFWDwQ2YJ, there was some discussion on tests related to papers and books and the src/sage/tests directory. Of course, I could have opened a ticket and included my code into the src/sage/tests directory. But I cannot imagine that this approach would scale very well. I assume that there are many papers out there with a substantial amount of CPU time required for reproducability. Any thoughts/suggestions? Regards, Clemens > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Betreff: [sage-devel] tests related to papers and books > Datum: Thu, 8 May 2014 15:38:10 -0700 > Von: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> > Antwort an: sage-devel@googlegroups.com > An: sage-devel <sage-devel@googlegroups.com> > > Hi, > > I'm at a reproducible research workshop, and that reminded me that we > have a directory in Sage full of tests related to published works: > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/tree/master/src/sage/tests > > But it's really not much at all! So if you're going to write (or > wrote) a paper with Sage examples, try to remember to add a file to > the above directory, so your examples work forever, etc. > > William > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
