William Stein wrote: > 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 > >
I know we have had this discussion before, but I do not seem to be alone on my views on this one. It is not clear to me there needs to be very frequent releases. I know you say Apple itunes brings out a new release every couple of weeks, but this is quite a different sort of market. Wolfram Research bring out a major Mathematica release every couple of years, and minor releases every 6 months or so. That seems about the norm for professional software. IMHO, making a new release every 6 months, whilst making all alphas, and release candidates available to anyone who want them would be better. The releases could be more thoroughly tested, but people could still play with the latest unstable stuff if they want to. Very frequent public releases could be seen as a disadvantage of Sage - a point made by Bill Hart when I asked once what were the disadvantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/82d047b25268e9e6/bd337ab8314ab741?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=What+are+*DIS*advantages+of+Sage+compared+to+the+3+M%27s+%3F#bd337ab8314ab741 Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
