On 20 Aug, 18:18, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 7:40 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > On 16 Aug, 23:18, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Please build and test, a final source release should be out tonight.
>
> Hi Dave
Hi Michael
<SNIP>
> Yeah, unfortunately loads of things got bumped from the 3.1 release
> due to time constraints and Sage Days 9 also did not help too much. I
> am merging build fixes into 3.1.2 and so far have mostly done 64 bit
> OSX fixes. Hopefully I will get around to Solaris in 3.1.2 and get
> more fixes in there.
OK, I look forward to seeing the fixes in 3.1.2 (hopefully). Several
of them are one line fixes - so should hopefully not take long to do.
The first error that causes the compilation of 3.1 to fail only needs
two bytes changed (gcc to cc, and cc to gcc), PLUS whatever it needs
to create a new .spkg file, and I assume generate a new version number
for the .spkg file.
I can't help feeling these fixes would be much easier to integrate if
the code was not supplied as lots of .spkg files, but just as simple
source files. I know for me personally, I would have got a lot more
done in a lot less time, if it was just a matter of editing a source
file and changing a couple of bytes in it. Not only that, but if
someone downloads only changes between versions, it would dramatically
reduce the amount of code that needs to be downloaded. The fact any
change occurs in the compressed .spkg file means the whole thing needs
to be downloaded.
Dave
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