RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-29 Thread C Y
--- C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is how I see the situation: > > > > | || | > > | |darcs and | > > |next big = hg mirrors | > > |

RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-29 Thread C Y
--- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is how I see the situation: > > | || | > | |darcs and | > |next big = hg mirrors | > |experiment | | > gold | /

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
What I know for sure is that I have five students who all have hard time with Axiom silver and I had to give them axiom.build-improvements. One group is working on formal power series, and the other is working on algorithmic differentiation. What exactly is the goal of the formal power series g

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> > For me personally, autoconf support is more important than > > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really > > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build > > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing > > the number of type of supported plat

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | are you trying to say that silver patches get backported into branches? I'm suggesting that every patch against silver be made as dealing conceptually with one thing, so that branch maintainers can decide whether they want to have them for the purpose of

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Diffing patches against Gold seems problematic to me. I | > would prefer for patches to be against Silver if possible. | > But this is mostly "cherry picking" anyway, so at least | > with most SCM tools (maybe darcs is an exception) it is | > necessary to use a

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > For me personally, autoconf support is more important than | > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really | > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build | > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing | > th

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> I don't think there are very many of these and I believe that > all of them have already been posted to the mailing list. I awoke this morning to a whole series of bug status reports changed to closed. Perhaps this is correct but I didn't see changes to the source code patched and tested. I'm go

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> Diffing patches against Gold seems problematic to me. I > would prefer for patches to be against Silver if possible. > But this is mostly "cherry picking" anyway, so at least > with most SCM tools (maybe darcs is an exception) it is > necessary to use a fair amount of manual manipulation of > pat

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 10/27/2006 10:10 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Tim, | | On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote: | > Gaby wrote: | > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to | > > trunk at this moment. Rather, you want to minimize dista

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> For me personally, autoconf support is more important than > almost everything else, the reason being that I would really > like to see more Axiom developers. The more standard our build > environment is, the easier that will be. Seconly increasing > the number of type of supported platforms is v

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> Here is how I see the situation: > > | || | > | |darcs and | > |next big = hg mirrors | > |experiment | | > gold | /| > gold < |

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Rubey
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Here is how I see the situation: > | > | | || | > | | |darcs and | > | |next big = hg mirrors | > |

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Tim, | | On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote: | > Gaby wrote: | > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to | > > trunk at this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance | > > as much as possible. Concretely, that mean

RE: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote: > Gaby wrote: > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to > > trunk at this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance > > as much as possible. Concretely, that means backporting > > some patches on silver to that branch

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > It appears that we now have at least two "trunks" under SVN -- | > ignoring for the moment, all the variations under other SCMs. That is | > going to be more confusing to people already confused with the current | > state of the affairs. We need to agree on T

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to trunk at | > this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance as much as | > possible. Concretely, that means backporting some patches on silver | > to that branch -- not the other way around. | | m

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > When build-improvements is ready to be merged into trunk, I'll propose | > it. Build-improvements is ready when the TODO list has been moved to | > "done" section and tested adequately. If you believe you want merge | > piecemeal, go for it. Just beware that

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> It appears that we now have at least two "trunks" under SVN -- > ignoring for the moment, all the variations under other SCMs. That is > going to be more confusing to people already confused with the current > state of the affairs. We need to agree on THE trunk. well i'm in the process of merg

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to trunk at > this moment. Rather, you want to minimize distance as much as > possible. Concretely, that means backporting some patches on silver > to that branch -- not the other way around. merging build-improvements can happen "when it

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Let me know what you think of this arrangement. | | You do realize that this leaves the build-improvement branch as | a true fork since it is no longer "rooted" at axiom49 in the SVN tree. | | I think we need a person to volunteer to be the "patch-pusher" | b

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread root
> When build-improvements is ready to be merged into trunk, I'll propose > it. Build-improvements is ready when the TODO list has been moved to > "done" section and tested adequately. If you believe you want merge > piecemeal, go for it. Just beware that that is going to cause troubles > and I d

Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > Let me know what you think of this arrangement. | | You do realize that this leaves the build-improvement branch as | a true fork since it is no longer "rooted" at axiom49 in the SVN tree. | | I think we need a person to volunteer to be the "patch-pusher" | b