#8520: Optional package gap_packages-4.4.12_2 fails to install on Solaris 10
SPARC
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: positive_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.4
Component: optional packages | Keywords:
Author: Dima Pasechnik | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: David Kirkby | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Changes (by newvalueoldvalue):
* status: needs_review => positive_review
* reviewer: => David Kirkby
* author: => Dima Pasechnik
Comment:
That is fine.
* The bug is fixed, so the packages install on Solaris.
* There is now a SPKG.txt
* There is now a Mercurial repository.
Positve review. I'm not sure how to get the old package removed and this
one put in its place. I better ask on sage-devel.
You confirmed what I thought about the speciality of the packages.
I did notice ace failed to install, though I realise the method I used to
install them was working through them alphabetically, so ace would have
been tried before gap_packages. I don't think there is any automatic way
for a package to install its dependencies.
I'll look for your ace package and will review that.
Thank you for fixing this. Not that I personally will be using it, but its
nice to know it installs correctly now.
Realistically these optional packages should be checked before a release
is made, so things like the breakage of ace since 4.3.3 do not happen. I
can not believe Wolfram Research would release a new release of
Mathematica without verifying the '!AddOns' install properly. If sage is
going to be a viable alternative to Mathematica, for me at least there
needs to be a bit more emphasis on quality control.
Dave
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