On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 26 December 2011 19:51, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >> On 26 December 2011 19:28, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> What problems? Are there any corresponding open trac tickets or bug >>> reports about your problems? >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10968 >> >> Note that another ticket >> >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9032 >> >> which was closed (I gave it positive review), was not a complete cure, >> but the patch reduced the number of failures from 12 to 2. > > Correction, > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8495 > fixes some MMA issues, but others remain, and are in #10968.
Thanks for reporting all of this and collating and explaining the bugs. I've looked at some, and think I could fix some of them pretty easily. I can't right now, because I'm more busy with other things, and my laptop Mathematica license expired. But once I sort that out, I'll look at these. William > > Note, I found the bug I reported in #8495, which was later opened as > #10968, within 1-2 minutes of testing with the most basic of examples > of Mathematica usage. You can't get much simpler than finding a > numerical approximation of Pi. > > If I understand it correclty, the test failures noted on #8495, which > took 13 months to fix, were introduced much earlier in #3587, but > nobody had noticed. > > I know pexpect has been the source of numerous issues in Sage, so I'm > not about to rely on pexpect when I can use an interface developed for > Mathematica by Wolfram Research, which would undergo far more testing > than the Mathematica inferface we have in Sage, which is an optional > package underging very limited testing. > > > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
