#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 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.
I see, the answer to both are the same. I should clarify: as far as I
could determine when I filed this ticket, it was precisely the tab-
completion doctest which caused the timeout, but not because tab-
completion didn't work, it just didn't doctest well. Hence the minor and
mention of tabs.
> > 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.
Right.
I'll try this when I get a chance - which won't be immediately, still
recovering from SD35.5 and an accident incurred during that time.
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