On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM, mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On May 4, 7:30 am, Jaap Spies <j.sp...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
>> mabshoff wrote:
>> > Hello folks,
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>> > the final release for 3.4.2 is done and sources, the upgrade bits and
>> > a sage.math binary are in the usual place at
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>> >  http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/release-cycles-3.4.2/
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>> > I was cocky and labeled the release 3.4.2 instead of 3.4.2.final since
>> > I am pretty confident we won't need another 3.4.2 release.
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>> Except setting testing in FLINT off!
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> Well, I knew FLINT still ran its test suite and given we updated MPIR
> I do prefer for it to run. There was also no 3.4.2 ticket to turn it
> off :p.

It takes like 2-3 hours to run on some of my build machines, nearly
doubling the time of building Sage from source.

> In Sage 4.0 I will hopefully have a more flexible system for testing
> so that people who don't want to run the "mandated" testing can turn
> it off more easily.

What's wrong with the current SAGE_CHECK (or whatever) system where
spkg-check is run only if a certain environment variable is set?

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> Originally FLINT 1.2.5 was supposed to go into 3.4.2, but while
> testing it I saw a doctest failure in some cohomology code and I did
> not feel like tracking this down since the main change in FLINT 1.2.5
> was the update to zn_poly 0.9 (which contained a fix that was supposed
> to resolve the problem completely). The issue that popped up might
> also be a padics problem since 2/3 of the doctest failure has been
> resolved by the new zn_poly, I guess we might find out in Sage 4.0 or
> 4.0.x. ;)
>

Good.

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