On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:14 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Robert Bradshaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:53 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:51 AM, mabshoff >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> >>>>> Could you "rebase" the entire Sage repo so it has the new hashes, >>>>> then included >>>>> it for Sage-3.0 :-) If we're going to make a massive change like >>>>> that, 3.0 would >>>>> be the time to do it. Or does that request make no sense? >>>> >>>> We will likely have the same problem every time we merge heads >>>> if I >>>> understand the problem correctly. We also have about 40 patches >>>> outstanding [at any given time it seems - the number seems to >>>> oscillate around 40] and all of those would need to be rebased. >>>> Since >>>> the repo-as-text is a very specific case and in case it would >>>> have to >>>> be redone after each branch merge I see little benefit to do it. >>>> >>> >>> I'll let Robert answer, but he said "Yes, they changed the way >>> they do >>> hashing,", >>> and I'm proposing somehow updating our repo so that throughout it >>> uses >>> their new way of doing hashing. I'm not proposing something that >>> would >>> happen more than once. >>> >>> William >> >> Yes, I could. This would mean that no pre-3.0 bundles would apply to >> post-3.0 (short of re-basing the bundles--and the big one (coercion) >> I could rebase myself). Patches should be just fine, and most things >> aren't big enough to warrant bundles. Does anyone know if mercurial >> 1.0 changed how hashing is done (yet again) or is it finally stable? >> If so I think this would be a good thing to do. >> > > Well this is definitely the right *time* to do it.
I'll do that then. Probably best to do right before the release, to not disrupt the development cycle (and as the actual code won't change (check with a diff) we won't need to be concerned about breaking Sage). Perhaps the other packages should be changed as well. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
