Hi all, After a false start earlier this week it appears that sage-4.6.1.alpha2 is finally released. The previous "release" was aborted after I reported tests results from sage-on-gentoo to the sage-devel mailing list. We have an impact upstream. Thanks to Steve Trogdon for running the test in question against my ebuilds.
There are many things of interest planned for 4.6.1: * numpy-1.5/scipy-0.8 - we already have this but now it is official upstream * maxima-5.22.1 - again we already have this but upstream is getting there * cvxopt-1.1.3 - see above * sphinx-1.0.4 - is stable on gentoo but broke a test in sage, with upstream upgrading the test is fixed. While we have a lot of this already, the main point is that the number of patches we are applying is actually going down in this release. And if I had been a bit more attentive working with upstream it may have been going down further. We have a handle on all the issues reported except for two. One about gap from which we haven't heard in ages. Some changes we have made months ago would have reduced the impact of this problem dramatically anyway. A report by Vladimir that sage doesn't work on his system. This is more worrying but we are unable to reproduce it. I am hoping it is related to some tickets upstream on pynac. If it is, Vladimir's problem could be solved in 4.6.1 or 4.6.2. ------------------------ Other matters. Some of you already know this. I am relocating on the 1st of December and will be probably out of action for most of December. Christopher will be the sole person in charge of the overlay during that time. I am sure he will have the support of the usual suspects. I am not sure what his plans are regarding making alpha releases. It was quite good to do some for 4.6 as there was a lot of changes being put in place upstream. 4.6.1 is more interesting than I thought it would be, so there is some value in doing some alpha releases. I think we are in good shape for 4.6.1 as it is unlikely there will be another disruptive change at this stage. Oh yes, I will lose my ppc machine :( - I will get some more at my new work but they won't be running gentoo (although I am already thinking of trying to run prefix on them) they are running aix. Francois
