On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:46 PM, leif <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 3 Jun., 02:30, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (sorry for the crossposting)
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:58 PM, leif <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> There is also an alpha1 of sage-4.4.3 here, and two tiny doctests failures
>>
>> >>    
>> >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/build/release/4.4.3/sage-...
>>
>> >> Failures on sage.math:
>>
>> >>         sage -t  -long "devel/sage/sage/graphs/generic_graph.py"
>>
>> > *Tiny* doctest failure?! This might break lots of documentation/texts
>> > prepared with Sage (and I guess breaks the notebook output as well).
>> > I've qualified this "critical", though I'd rather consider this a
>> > blocker. (See ticket #9086.)
>>
>> Nobody proposed releasing Sage without fixing this.
>
> That's how I interpreted "tiny". ;-)
>
>
>> >>         sage -t  -long "devel/sage/sage/sets/set.py"
>> >> Total time for all tests: 8037.9 seconds
>>
>> >> This fails to build on OS X, due to some changes we made to get it to
>> >> build on Cygwin.
>>
>> >> The alpha above makes almost no changes to the core Sage library.
>>
>> >> Of the "25 patches with positive review ready for inclusion" that you
>> >> mentioned above,
>> >> are they all changes to the core Sage library?  Or do the patch spkg's, 
>> >> etc.?
>>
>> >> One possibility would be to test/stabilize the current 4.4.3.alpha*
>> >> (i.e., fix the fallout from the cygwin
>> >> related tickets), include those 25 patches (all to the sage library),
>> >> and release 4.4.3 on Saturday.
>>
>> > Burcin said he won't be able to fix #9086 until next week...
>>
>> Burcin isn't the only person that knows how to work on Pynac.
>
> Probably.

I guess I can be more explicit.    Getting Ginac to work with Python
data types instead of CLN was my idea and I made it work.  I wrote the
first version of Pynac during an intense two week coding session in
San Diego during August 2008.   Burcin did a lot of development after
that.  Mike Hansen has also done a lot of work on Pynac.

>  I haven't looked deeper at it because it seemed to me *he*
> certainly will (and quickly can) fix it as soon as he has time to do
> so, i.e. next week. Also, at that time, I did not see an upcoming rc
> or final.

The more people who can fix or work on a given codebase the better.

William

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