On Dec 24, 2008, at 20:36 , William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:48 PM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> > wrote: [snip] >>>>> I want the Sage "optional" packages to *all* install fine on every >>>>> system that we officially support Sage on. >>> >>>> No chance this is going to work. >>> >>> 1. Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean it >>> can't work. >> >> You are kidding me? > > Obviously we're misunderstanding each other here. I'm not claiming > that every spkg should be *supported* to run on every OS. However, > when one tries to install on a non-supported platform, the failure to > install should be very graceful.
I don't think you can achieve this. To be able to fail gracefully on a randomly chosen platform means that you will (and will continue to) test on every conceivable platform, to assure that the failure will be graceful. Even "supported" platforms may have configurations that were not imagined at the time a release is put together, so saying that *any* platform will be supported to some level of "grace" is a significant commitment. Do you mean something other than the above? Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
