On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:09 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, it has been a full 2 months since a Sage release. > How do I find source code for old releases of SAGE!?
The reason I was looking is because it has been exactly 2 months since the last Sage release, to the day. According to http://sagemath.org/src-old/ the longest gap ever between releases was during the first "coercion rewrite" in 2006, when the releases were: sage-1.5.0.2.tar 72.72 MB 2006-12-15 06:51 sage-1.4.1.2.tar 64.19 MB 2006-10-19 19:09 which were separated by just under 2 months. Except for that GAP there was never more than about 5 weeks between releases. Anyway, in light of the above facts, I think the Sage release management system we came up with in May when Abshoff quit deserves to be discussed again. We designed it, tried it, and it's definitely not clear to me that it has been a great success (thought of course I greatly value the incredible work done by Minh, Craig, Robert, and everybody else who worked on release management). However, if Sage is to become a genuine alternative to Magma, Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab with *millions* of users -- we simply have to be much more efficient. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
