Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
Robert Bradshaw wrote:
[snipped]
For spkgs, changes to shell scripts, etc. a it is much more important
to test on a wide variety of platforms. Fortunately, most
contributions are plain vanilla Python/Cython.
Thanks for bringing this up, this is an example of what separates (in
my mind) the "sage-build" level stuff from the "sage-devel" level stuff.
- Robert
What you say about 'most' being Python/Cython is undoubtedly true.
However, there is still a significant number of .spkg updates each release.
The recent update to R, which screwed up on Solaris, resulted in iconv
being added to Sage rather hurriedly (directly as a standard package).
Iconv seems to be the cause of some problems on Fedora building gd,
though it appears it can be solved by removing an option to gd's
configure script.
Whoever introduced this package or/and the one who gave it a positive review
should have tested this change on all supported platforms :)!?
Moreover the releasemanager should have tested it on all available machines.
IMHO, the updates to .spkg files are not being done carefully enough.
+1
Jaap
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