On Feb 5, 2:03 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >> > I discovered this bug on sagenb.org which is running Sage 3.3.alpha3
>
> > I am more than a little surprised that sagenb.org is running 3.3.a3,
> > but I guess TinyMCE is too much motivation to not run 3.2.3 :)
>
> After using the sage notebook for a few days with TinyMCE I got the impression
> that the Sage notebook is almost pointless without it :-).
Yeah, it is one of those features where once you have it you cannot
understand why we ever though we didn't need it, so a big giant thanks
to Jason for making this happen. In the process of the TinyMCE merge
he also ended up cleaning up a lot of the other Java code and did
resolve some long standing tickets to make the ext code repo much
close to disappearing. I am sure he felt the complaints and the review
process would never end, but he made it :)
After my initial reaction to Sage 1.3 or so ("Why would anyone be
stupid enough to write a CAS in *Python*?), the notebook ("Meh, but a
command line interface is so much better"), interact ("Why should I
care about that?") and finally TinyMCE ("big whoop") I am glad that
good ideas I would have not even considered worthy a second look make
it from ideas to actual implementation quickly and without the need to
fight political battles.
> Anyway, I know that sage-3.3.alpha3 is pretty solid on 64-bit Xeon
> ubuntu, which is what sagenb.org is, so I upgraded. I figured we
> could use the free testing, and it's paid off as you can see.
Yep, eating your own dogfood is the way to go. And I think that 3.3.a6
ought to pass with barely a failing doctest on SkyNet and boxen's
VMWare machines, so we will be done with 3.3 soon. The only big issue
is the FC crashes.
Cheers,
Michael
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