Hi, On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:13:48 François Bissey wrote: > 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.
Lets hope so ;) But yes, I will take care for the overlay. Since I am very busy this lecture period expect me to be active on weekends. > > I am not sure what his plans are regarding making alpha releases. I do not plan to make alpha releases - again, lack of time :-/ > 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. Definitely - 4.6 and 4.6.1 introduced a lot of new packages. > 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
