On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:41 AM, David Kirkby wrote: > 2009/10/13 William Stein <wst...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> That's a great argument. Unfortunately, you can make exactly the >> same >> argument with respect to asking Windows/Linux/OS X developers to >> use a >> POSIX-only environment. "Another issue to consider is whether >> asking >> Windows/Linux/OS X users to use a POSIX-only environment is likely to >> backfire, and them lose interest in helping in a port (or >> maintenance) >> on Windows/Linux/OS X." >> >> William > > For Unix/Linux environments, perhaps a sensible solution could be > summed up in two or perhaps three sentances. > > 1) Ensure you respect all environment variables. > > 2) Check it works on all supported operating systems using GCC as a > compiler. > > 3) Check it works on Cygwin, since a port to this is planned. > > I personally do not think that is an unreasonable request. One of the > main justifications for this is that bugs often show on one platform > and not another, even though they are not portability issues.
I think this is a reasonable thing to require when reviewing spkgs, but much of the above doesn't even make sense for most contributions. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
