On Apr 24, 2:27 pm, Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Jason Grout wrote: > > Jqueryui can actually be updated to the latest release, which is later > > than the svn version shipping with Sage, so that shouldn't be a problem. > > Matplotlib should be releasing a new version Real Soon Now, and then > > can be upgraded. Currently, we use some features from SVN that are not > > available in the latest release (arrow drawing stuff). > > > We also ship an SVN version of scipy. Before a couple of months ago, > > everyone did, though (I think even debian), since it hadn't had a > > release in a very long time. We should upgrade to the latest release of > > scipy now, though. > > If people have time to do these updates before the Sage 4.0 release, I > would be grateful. > > -Tim Abbott
On the issue of using pre-release versions of Sage dependencies, perhaps as a last resort we could ask Debian package maintainers to upload a SVN version to the experimental repository and a reasonably up-to-date version of Sage could be put into experimental while an older version of Sage goes into unstable and later testing whenever it is possible to sync a Sage release to officially versions of its dependencies? And people could get Sage from experimental if they need it. This would also make it possible for Ubuntu and other distros that cherry-pick from experimental to include Sage in their regular releases. The major issue that I can see is that maybe experimental contains a pre-release of gcc or something than an individual does not want but does want Sage from experimental. Perhaps that can be addressed with tight enough versioning of Sage's dependencies, even though Debian sort of frowns on that. Ben --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
