On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:17 PM, mabshoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 9, 12:40 pm, Ondrej Certik <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Tim Abbott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim, Ondrej, > >> > I mentioned that I'd send mail here again once the segfault problems are >> > fixed. >> >> I want to congratulate you once again for all the work you did. I >> noticed on your webpage, that you were told that it would need 5 or 6 >> people working on it. It was my estimate at SD6 in Bristol, given my >> current working load, that I would need 5 more Ondrejs. So I am *very* >> impressed by the work you did. > > +1 :) > >> > I believe that both of the crash-on-start problems with Sage 3.0.5 in >> > Debian are fixed in version 3.0.5dfsg-2, which is available in Debian sid. >> >> Indeed, sage now starts on both i386 and amd64. Unfortunately, maxima >> doesn't play well neither on i386 or amd64: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514648 >> >> so any calculus doesn't work yet. > > Yeah, those are the things I am always concerned about since anything > using pexpect just breaks too easily. When switching to a different > Maxima release and also using a different lisp things get worse (even > though they shouldn't be broken like *this*) and Debian seems to use > gcl for Maxima. > > In the next couple weeks I will make an effort fix > > * fix the "trivial" issues Tim reported a while back, i.e. #3686- > #3690 > * fix the non-owner ought to be able to doctest issues, i.e. #5155 so > that users can run the regression suite of Sage without owning any of > the Sage tree
and: * get rid of maxima for basic calculus Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
