There are a fair number of things "fixed" and a discussion of "fixes" but there aren't any patches posted.
The procedure we agreed upon was that we would post patches to the mailing list against the gold branch using diff -Naur goldpamphlet newpamphlet I mention this because I can see a problem developing. Gaby originally set out to make a global change to axiom for autotools. This was the stated intention of the build-improvements branch. There are a large number of "fixes" being applied which appear to have nothing to do with autotools, such as the sttaylor fix and the sage change. Worse yet, it appears that the sage connection won't work with gold so sage users cannot get the latest axiom "gold" release. Careful thought will show that this is going to be a major future problem. Consider what happens when the time comes for build-improvements to be merged with silver. There will be hundreds of differences, many of which will have nothing to do with the build process. Each difference has to be fully documented (which I don't see anywhere). Each difference has to be tested (and I don't see any test cases anywhere). Each difference has to be merged and then tested on many platforms (pty fixes are going to take a lot of time and testing). I'm impressed with the rate of change of fixes and I don't want to slow the motion but I think it would be wise to consider submitting documented, tested fixes against gold if they do not require autotools. t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
