After finally getting Sage 10.8beta5 to build in the context which I need for the Sage_macOS app, I built the app, only to find that it is completely broken. The reason turns out to be that the main sage executable (sage/venv/bin/sage) has completely changed. The long bash script which parses the options and sources other bash scripts to construct the execution environment has been replaced by a python script which works completely differently and seems to support a different set of options.
The new version may well be an improvement. I can't say yet. But the idea that something as core as the main sage executable would get changed in a fundamental and backwards incompatible way between two beta releases, without any warning or any discussion at all, is mind boggling. As the subject line says, it is just crazy. No serious software development project works that way. - Marc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/4dc446b5-4d68-4dc1-882c-0ee2b8512238n%40googlegroups.com.
