#18558: Test all installed optional packages by default
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Reporter: ncohen | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.8
Component: doctest framework | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Nathann Cohen, | Reviewers:
Jeroen Demeyer | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Commit:
Branch: u/jdemeyer/18558 | 59af6983b05b6581ef1282cdec41d6e63ad82459
Dependencies: #18456, #18124, | Stopgaps:
#18559, #18563 |
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Comment (by ncohen):
> I disagree, because this means that the (old) default behavior of not
getting doctest failures will be replaced (possibly) by lots of perhaps-
very-confusing doctest errors, with this branch.
Okay. So let us have this conversation here. For a start, do we agree that
we are talking about users running doctests with optional packages
installed? If so, we cannot call them beginners.
Since you insist on having this conversation here, I also wonder why you
think that it is doctest-related. If you are thinking of users running an
old version of a package, which would thus break Sage code, then clearly
it is a problem of a much wider scope than doctest testing, isn't it ?
In particular, I do not believe that there is anything related to that
which can be dealt with at the level of doctest. What you request is a way
to detect that the installed package is too old to be used for this or
that feature, and such a feature cannot be implemented without knowing
each package individually.
If such a thing should be implemented, then we would need the
`is_package_installed` function to be able to deal with version numbers,
and thus be able to check whether the current version is sufficiently new.
> But I don't have any specific ideas on how to solve the problem, just
wondering how it is/will be dealt with.
It is a question for sage-devel, unless you have strong reasons to believe
that it should be addressed by this ticket.
Nathann
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