#11321: Make lcalc compatible with the new PARI
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.1
Component: packages | Keywords: lcalc spkg
Work_issues: | Upstream: Reported
upstream. Developers acknowledge bug.
Reviewer: Volker Braun, Leif Leonhardy | Author: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged: | Dependencies: #11130
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Comment(by leif):
Replying to [comment:14 jdemeyer]:
> About committing the changes: I find it very annoying to have to commit
the changes everytime I make a change.
You don't have to, unless you publish them. ;-)
And you can always keep an uncommitted copy. I don't think it's much work
to commit the changes if you have to create (perhaps upload) and announce
a new spkg anyway.
> If you are happy with the spkg except for the committing of the changes,
I can still commit the changes at that point.
Well, not committing the changes means ''I'' have to commit your changes
''in your name'' (with some random commit message) and repackage the spkg
* in order to really test all changes (as files get deleted upon commit),
* if I want to make some reviewer patch or a (follow-up) spkg based on
yours.
The first point is of course more crucial, since not only lazy people
might just install and test the spkg as is, such that potential errors
will only show up much later. So not committing the changes is IMHO simply
bad practice unless the spkg is really and explicitly said to be in some
alpha state, most probably not ready and not intended to get merged as is
(despite needing review / testing by others), which might be ok in rare
cases.
There's a reason the term ''commit'' is used rather than just e.g. ''save
changes'', the former implying some confidence or conviction by the author
(or committer).
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