Re: [sage-packaging] Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-09-07 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2017-09-06 17:28, Ximin Luo wrote: If there is no "normalise" function for that context, perhaps there is at least a method to check that two objects represent the same mathematical group, so: I sort of agree in principle, but this is easier said than done. In many cases, the mathematics i

Re: [sage-packaging] Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-09-06 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 06/09/2017 10:28, Ximin Luo wrote: Jeroen Demeyer: On 2017-09-06 14:53, Ximin Luo wrote: I've seen numerous cases where Sage has to change the expected test output simply because a dependency was upgraded. There has to be a more sustainable way of achieving this... Suggestions welcome...

Re: [sage-packaging] Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-09-06 Thread Ximin Luo
Jeroen Demeyer: > On 2017-09-06 14:53, Ximin Luo wrote: >> I've seen numerous cases where Sage has to change the expected test output >> simply because a dependency was upgraded. There has to be a more sustainable >> way of achieving this... > > Suggestions welcome... > > Note that none of your

Re: [sage-packaging] Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-07-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 27 July 2017 at 10:01, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2017-07-26 00:46, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: > >> Would it be worth creating a fork of PARI >> > > What *exactly* do you mean with that? > > I feel like "fork" is just a word and you can already consider the > PARI-in-Sage t

Re: [sage-packaging] Re: [sage-devel] Upgrade PARI to git master

2017-07-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2017-07-26 00:46, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: Would it be worth creating a fork of PARI What *exactly* do you mean with that? I feel like "fork" is just a word and you can already consider the PARI-in-Sage to be a fork of PARI. you would avoid the problems of a distri