Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
David Roe wrote: If 4.3 plus one single patch would do it, I think it's completely worth while. Yes, me too. Minh has now created the file. I'm just building it now. If you know what that patch should be, make a ticket and post it. The patch is this one. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_t

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-28 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Jan-27 19:24:18 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: >>It does not seem unreasonable to check ones patches on Solaris, OS X and one >>linux distro. Of course it does not guarantee it will work on every linux >>distro, but it would hav

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-28 Thread David Roe
If 4.3 plus one single patch would do it, I think it's completely worth while. If you know what that patch should be, make a ticket and post it. Having a version that works on Solaris out of the box is worth having an out of sequence release. Then we just need a source tarball at minimum, right?

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-28 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: It does not seem unreasonable to check ones patches on Solaris, OS X and one linux distro. I would say that this is unreasonable. Especially for casual or first-time contributors. But we've had this discussion befo

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Martin Albrecht wrote: People often CC me onto tickets to test on Solaris. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to test every patch on Solaris. Nor do I. Or test

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jan-27 19:24:18 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >It does not seem unreasonable to check ones patches on Solaris, OS X and one >linux distro. Of course it does not guarantee it will work on every linux >distro, but it would have a reasonable probability of doing so. What's needed is a

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Martin Albrecht wrote: People often CC me onto tickets to test on Solaris. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to test every patch on Solaris. Nor do I. Or test every patch on all of Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, OS X, e

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-27 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Martin Albrecht wrote: People often CC me onto tickets to test on Solaris. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to test every patch on Solaris. Nor do I. Or test every patch on all of Ubuntu, RedHat, Debian, OS X, etc. (and soon Cygwin),

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Martin Albrecht wrote: People often CC me onto tickets to test on Solaris. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to test every patch on Solaris. Yet 't2' is available for anyone to test their changes. That machine was supplied free by Sun, who obviously want to see Sage running on Solaris. For s

Re: [sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-27 Thread Martin Albrecht
> People often CC me onto tickets to test on Solaris. Unfortunately, I > don't have the time to test every patch on Solaris. Yet 't2' is > available for anyone to test their changes. That machine was supplied > free by Sun, who obviously want to see Sage running on Solaris. For some reason I have

[sage-devel] Sage on Solaris - is there a policy for testing / releasing ?

2010-01-26 Thread David Kirkby
Since versions 4.2 Sage would build on Solaris 10 SPARC using gcc. The last remaining issue to prevent this: http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6579 which was solved 3 months ago. However, it would not build if the Sun compilers were installed - since the Sage library chose the Sun C++ rather