Wait, so Apple does not support an OS which came out in late 2013? On 14 June 2015 at 11:05, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think more testing is the answer. Really, the problems boil down > to > > a) OSX users running outdated and usupported OSX versions (i.e. anything < > 10.10); Do you want to run a buildbot with an OS version that has major > unfixed security issues and that has been EOL'ed by the manufacturer? > Apple's valuation is 7x the cost of the Apollo program and they don't do > it; How many resources do we have at our disposal? > > b) random crap installed in /usr/local thanks to homebrew. That nothing > imports / links from /usr/local could be automatically tested using strace, > a compiler wrapper, or poisoned headers like the fake > /usr/local/include/gmp.h on my osx buildslave. But more machines won't help > unless you want to install random crap on them. > > c) no windows support > > d) abuse of LD_LIBRARY_PATH makes Sage impossible to build/use on some > Linux distros, e.g. if Sage readline clashes with the version that bash > needs then you are SOL. > > > > > On Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 12:08:03 AM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> On 2015-06-13 01:26, William Stein wrote: >> > suggestions about how to address this >> > problem using new ideas. >> More testing? More and different buildbot machines testing more >> operating systems? Perhaps using VM's? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
