[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-23 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > A decision needs to be made about updating Maxima. First a few facts. > > > * The version of Maxima (5.16.3) in Sage is quite old. > * The version of ECL (9.4.1) in Sage is quite old. > * The old ECL 9.4.1 will not build on Solaris with a SPARC processor. > * The update

Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima? (fwd)

2009-08-21 Thread Tim Abbott
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, William Stein wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, gsw wrote: > > > > Hi David, > > > > concerning your original question: > > In Debian sid (==unstable currently), there are Maxima version 5.17.1, > > and ECL version 9.6.1. > > These versions are more recent than wh

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-21 Thread Alex Ghitza
I have just posted a patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6699 which takes care of all but one doctest failure *on Linux systems* due to the new ECL and Maxima spkg's. If anybody has ideas about how to deal with the last doctest, it would be great to hear about it. It also remain

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, gsw wrote: > > Hi David, > > concerning your original question: > In Debian sid (==unstable currently), there are Maxima version 5.17.1, > and ECL version 9.6.1. > These versions are more recent than what currently comes with Sage. > But if we grade up to Maxima v

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread gsw
Hi David, concerning your original question: In Debian sid (==unstable currently), there are Maxima version 5.17.1, and ECL version 9.6.1. These versions are more recent than what currently comes with Sage. But if we grade up to Maxima version 5.19.0 and ECL version 9.8.3, these versions were mor

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Nick Alexander wrote: >> For the cases where fixing seems non-trivial, we can discuss >> here how to deal with them. > > Please post a log somewhere (not on list) so that the masses can take > a look. I can often identify trivial fixes quickly. > > Nick > > > > This was taken with a sligh

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread Nick Alexander
> For the cases where fixing seems non-trivial, we can discuss > here how to deal with them. Please post a log somewhere (not on list) so that the masses can take a look. I can often identify trivial fixes quickly. Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this gr

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi, On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>> A decision needs to be made about updating Maxima. First a few facts. >>> * I've created packages for *almost* the latest versions of ECL and Maxima. >>> >>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/Solaris-fixes/ecl-9.8.3/ >>> h

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Dr. David > Kirkby wrote: >> A decision needs to be made about updating Maxima. First a few facts. >> >> >> * The version of Maxima (5.16.3) in Sage is quite old. >> * The version of ECL (9.4.1) in Sage is quite old. >> * The

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread MaxTheMouse
> > IMO, we should definitely upgrade to the latest versions of both. > Could you please give the number (roughly) of doctest failures in all? > > Best, > Golam After running sage -testall, I got ~60 failures which sounds like a lot. Not all are in maxima.py. However, many seem to be changes in

[sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

2009-08-20 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi, On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > A decision needs to be made about updating Maxima. First a few facts. > > > * The version of Maxima (5.16.3) in Sage is quite old. > * The version of ECL (9.4.1) in Sage is quite old. > * The old ECL 9.4.1 will not build on Solaris