Le lundi 4 décembre 2017 15:16:39 UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : > > On 2017-12-04 14:35, Erik Bray wrote: > > I don't see why. What's the harm in merging a couple working branches? > > The first rc version of Sage 8.1 is now almost 1 month ago. We don't > want to delay the release of 8.1 forever. >
I have no problem waiting for the adoption of new or enhanced features. I have a problem with the release of a partially broken system. Shouldn't we adopt, at least partially, the Debian motto "it will be released when it is ready" ? I already reported <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-release/-BV8h300wXE/-nczXqseCgAJ> ( twice <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-release/gwDq34aqrW8/Vcm2XSWAAgAJ> !) that 8.1.rc(whatever) won't build without Trac#24121 <https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24121> on Cygwin running on recent versions of Windows 10 (the "Fall Creators Update", which broke psutil). This version wiil be *_pervasive_*, Microsoft ***pushing*** this update to Windows 10 users (and pushing Windows 7 and 8 users towards Windows 10). Therefore, it seems to me that this fix is necessary, unless we drop Windows-under-Cygwin as a fully supported platform. Which would be, IMSAO, a *_major_* strategic blunder : Windows 10 is (alas) the platform used by 90% of the undergrad students, engineers and non-mathematician potential Sage users, which should be our target of choice. And Erik's magic tarball is a *_hell_* of a lot easier to install for a newbie (i. e. 90% of our potential users) that our current VM contraption. Similarly Erik has reported and fixed a bug that randomly break ptestlong. Should we release with a warning such as "such and such test may fail : don't break your pretty little head on it..." ? I think not... -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
