#9361: Maxima timeout on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-4.8
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Jeroen Demeyer
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by jdemeyer):
Replying to [comment:5 kcrisman]:
> How did this change from minor to critical?
I think a patch which adds a new platform to the list of completely
supported platforms warrants being "critical". But that's just my
opinion.
> There is nothing wrong with tab completion on that platform AFAIR, just
this timeout.
That's why I changed the ticket title. I guess somebody discovered the
timeout in `maxima.py` and somehow mistakenly assumed it was because of
TAB completion. Or, in an earlier version there was a problem was TAB-
completion on OS X 10.4 which is now fixed.
> Are there any problems we might expect from this change, such as
interrupts not working as quickly for Maxima on other (newer) platforms?
Assuming that interrupts in Maxima are implemented properly (admittedly, a
big "if"), there should not be any change in existing behaviour. If the
interrupt works properly, the changed timeout doesn't matter.
This patch does not change the interrupt behaviour of Maxima itself, it
only changes how often Sage sends interrupts to Maxima. On OS X 10.4,
Maxima can be interrupted, it is just slow, which makes Sage think that
something is wrong.
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