#10187: Update ecl and maxima
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6.1
Component: packages | Keywords:
Author: Volker Braun, David Kirkby | Upstream: Workaround found; Bug
reported upstream.
Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by leif):
Replying to [comment:72 drkirkby]:
> Replying to [comment:63 leif]:
> > The Maxima spkg IMHO needs work; not sure if on another ticket. (I
guess the authors will say yes; I personally don't like postponing spkg
changes very much, since this tends to make them never happen, or leads to
concurrent, "incompatible" changes.)
>
> A point that needs to be born in mind is that whilst the Maxima package
may not be perfect (I've not looked myself), a failure to update ECL and
Maxima will mean Sage will not build on the latest version of Fedora,
which is the second most popular linux distro. So I feel there is some
argument here for possibly accepting a package that could be improved. (I
say this, despite having no involvement whatsoever in updating the Maxima
package). But ECL and Maxima need to done together.
If there's a chance of getting it into 4.6.1 (and the authors are willing
to open follow-up tickets ;-) ), yes.
I'm not the release manager, but other spkg updates / changes have been
postponed to Sage 4.6.2. Clearly Maxima is also a "central" package in
Sage, so any upgrade carries the risk to break potentially a lot, or at
least more than other spkgs hardly used within Sage.
[[BR]]
> > I'm not sure if there are other changes from the previous attempt to
update ECL not made in the current spkg here.
> I'm not aware of any.
Certainly not... :D
(Otherwise I would have expected you to incorporate them if necessary. But
I see your ECL package is "fresh"; I first thought you just took some
"old" one since there were not many comments on it on the ticket, and no
patch or diff attached.)
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