Sometimes when I create a patch, or look at work of others, I see potential issues that might come back to haunt us at a later date. For example.
1) Whilst updating a polybori patch, I noticed something done some time back, that I think might have an impact on Solaris. I don't have the time to check it fully. It would only happen if Sage is built in debug mode. It's hardly a critical issue, but I think it worth noting. 2) I'm applying a patch to pari, which involves commenting out a couple of lines of code that cause hassle on Solaris when building the 'modified sage library code'. The patch was suggested by William, it does work, but I think it is fair to say neither of us have really investigated the effect this might have. To do so would be huge amount of work, and probably result in the conclusion it can't hurt. 3) I was going to apply a patch to singular, which is a bit of a hack. It will work and will never cause any problems, but it is far from clean. A better solution would be to resolve the underlying problems, which are probably an autoconf bug or a bug in the singular build system. Someone else is looking into that one, but the fix is not going to be immediate. 4) An atlas patch will have a (I believe small) impact on Solaris sun4v systems, and if Sun can sort out the library, will no longer be needed. It seems to me there should be a central location where people can add to a list of potential problems that might just come back to bit us in the future. Perhaps one trac ticket 'Potential issues in X' and another 'Potential issues in Y' where anyone adds any potential issues they see, which might be a problem in package X or Y at some later date, but which are of low priority, or unlikely to occur. Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
