Re: [sage-devel] Re: polybori: new boost version gives different random values

2013-02-28 Thread Alexander Dreyer
Hi everybody! Actually because in sage-on-gentoo we use the system boost we hit that particular doctest failure a long time ago. I then asked Alexander Dreyer who works on polybori if the output was ok and it didn't seem to be concerned. Indeed, you can safely ignore the changes in the

[sage-devel] Re: polybori: new boost version gives different random values

2013-02-27 Thread Nils Bruin
On Feb 27, 9:39 am, Timo Kluck tkl...@gmail.com wrote: The issue is that we're upgrading boost, and apparently, its random number generator has slightly changed. Therefore, we have some failing doctests for random_set. Do we really want to test our random number generators for deterministic

[sage-devel] Re: polybori: new boost version gives different random values

2013-02-27 Thread Simon King
Hi Nils, On 2013-02-27, Nils Bruin nbr...@sfu.ca wrote: On Feb 27, 9:39 am, Timo Kluck tkl...@gmail.com wrote: The issue is that we're upgrading boost, and apparently, its random number generator has slightly changed. Therefore, we have some failing doctests for random_set. Do we really

[sage-devel] Re: polybori: new boost version gives different random values

2013-02-27 Thread Timo Kluck
Op woensdag 27 februari 2013 20:19:32 UTC+1 schreef Simon King het volgende: Hi Nils, On 2013-02-27, Nils Bruin nbr...@sfu.ca javascript: wrote: Do we really want to test our random number generators for deterministic behaviour? If so, the test should probably at least set the seed

Re: [sage-devel] Re: polybori: new boost version gives different random values

2013-02-27 Thread François Bissey
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:19:34 Timo Kluck wrote: Op woensdag 27 februari 2013 20:19:32 UTC+1 schreef Simon King het volgende: Hi Nils, On 2013-02-27, Nils Bruin nbr...@sfu.ca javascript: wrote: Do we really want to test our random number generators for deterministic behaviour? If so,