On 3 August 2010 18:11, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest an alternative approach to this problem of
> "supported platforms".
> How about if whenever somebody runs
>
>   make testlong
>
> at the end an email is sent to [email protected] that contains some
> information:
>
>    * description of platform (OS + hardware)
>    * list of files where tests failed
>    * version of sage being tested
>
> A script will then 100% automatically generate a webpage based on the
> above info that will
> describe exactly which platforms are known to work for any given
> version of Sage.  Simple
> as that.   If we want the list of "supported platforms" for a *given
> release* to go up, all we have
> to do is get somebody somewhere to type "make testlong".
>
> Obviously, there will be an easy way to disable this.   Alternatively,
> instead of "make testlong" we could
> just use a different target, e.g., "make testlongreport".
>
> William

I can see the point of that, but I still feel you need to specify a
set of systems on which Sage will always be tested. Something which
generates a page of currently tested systems would be useful - many
projects do have such pages. But that's a bit different from a list of
what users can expect with every release.

Dave

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