On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Vladimir Perić <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone.
>>>
>>> I have made the first release candidate for SymPy 0.7.1.  You can
>>> download the source at
>>> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/detail?name=sympy-0.7.1.rc1.tar.gz,
>>> a Windows32 installer at
>>> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/detail?name=sympy-0.7.1.rc1.win32.exe,
>>> and the docs for this version at
>>> http://code.google.com/p/sympy/downloads/detail?name=sympy-0.7.1.rc1-docs-html.zip.
>>>
>>> The release notes are at
>>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-0.7.1. I will
>>> give this in more detail when I do the full release, but the big
>>> changes here are that isympy now works in IPython 0.11, which will be
>>> released soon, Pyglet is now an optional external dependency, Python
>>> 2.4 is no longer supported, and our docs use MathJax to render the
>>> LaTeX math.  There have also been several bug fixes and new
>>> functionality (see the full release notes).
>>>
>>> So please download the release and test it.  Also, since our docs have
>>> received a significant update with the MathJax, I ask that you also
>>> download the docs and see if they render correctly in your broswer of
>>> choice.  Some pages that use a lot of MathJax math include
>>> modules/simplify/hyperexpand.html, most of the mpmath documentation,
>>> and modules/galgebra/GA/GAsympy.html.  We also enabled a feature in
>>> Sphinx that lets you view the source code of a function in the
>>> documentation.  So, next to every function definition, there should be
>>> a "source" button which takes you to the source code of the function.
>>>
>>> If there are no major problems, I will do the full release in about a week.
>>>
>>> Aaron Meurer
>>>
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>>
>> I've run the usual tests on my computer, everything seems fine. One
>> issue is the hyperexpand tests. They rely on random numbers so they
>> fail occasionally (see the SymPy-hyperexpand job on Jenkins, they fail
>> about 1% of the time with ness' latest patch). This is bad because
>> users might think this is some more important failure. On the other
>> hand, simply reverting the whole patchset is no good either, as it
>> does bring nice new features. So, if ness doesn't manage to solve it
>> completely in a few days it might be a good idea to apply a patch to
>> branch that'll use some specific numbers in the tests.
>>
>> --
>> Vladimir Perić
>>
>
> I'm not sure if that's a good idea.  The point of the random tests is
> to increase coverage.  Tom, what is your opinion on this?

I also don't like random tests, because it is not robust. I think that
random tests should be disabled by default, but can be turned on if
needed.

Ondrej

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