On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Justin C. Walker <jus...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 24, 2008, at 20:36 , William Stein wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:48 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
> [snip]
>>>>>> I want the Sage "optional" packages to *all* install fine on every
>>>>>> system that we officially support Sage on.
>>>>
>>>>> No chance this is going to work.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it
>>>> can't work.
>>>
>>> You are kidding me?
>>
>> Obviously we're misunderstanding each other here. I'm not claiming
>> that every spkg should be *supported* to run on every OS. However,
>> when one tries to install on a non-supported platform, the failure to
>> install should be very graceful.
>
> I don't think you can achieve this. To be able to fail gracefully on
> a randomly chosen platform means that you will (and will continue to)
> test on every conceivable platform, to assure that the failure will be
> graceful. Even "supported" platforms may have configurations that
> were not imagined at the time a release is put together, so saying
> that *any* platform will be supported to some level of "grace" is a
> significant commitment.
>
> Do you mean something other than the above?
I definitely do not mean the above. Here's what is stated in the official
Sage README.txt:
"OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:
Building of Sage from source is regularly tested on
(minimal installs of) the following platforms:
PROCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEM
x86 32-bit Linux -- Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL5, Fedora
Core, CentOS, Suse, Mandriva
x86_64 64-bit Linux -- Debian, Redhat, Suse
ia64 itanium2 64-bit Linux -- Redhat, Suse
x86 Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x
ppc Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x
Use Sage on Microsoft Windows via VMware.
We do not always test on OS X 10.4, but Sage should work there fine."
We will be doing the following:
(1) make the above list much more precise, by nailing down the exact
OS version and hardware in each case, and deleting the parenthesis
around "minimal installs of".
(2) Test installation of all optional packages on those platforms
before each release.
-- William
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