Florent Hivert wrote:
Hi There,
It sounds like David's definition is that every release of Sage is tested
on Suse before release by at least compiling it and running all doctests
without errors (David, correct me if I'm misinterpreting your views!).
How does your definition differ, if it does?
Jason, you are not mis-representing my views. That would be my close to my
definition, though I would suggest it is modified a little, to be more
precise.
We state the version of openSUSE we support, not just 'openSUSE'. Ideally
that would be the latest stable release, but not necessarily so. I would
not suggest holding up a release of Sage just because SUSE have released a
new version, and nobody has had the time to set up that installation.
Neither would I remove SUSE support if Sage does not build on the latest
release, but builds on an earlier version.
Of course, if we chose to support older and never versions of openSUSE,
that is better, as long as Sage is tested on them.
Since in the case of openSUSE, there is official Sage support for both
32-bit and 64-bit, then it should be checked on both 32-bit and 64-bit
installations.
I there ! I don't know why among all the other distributions openSuSE is
driving so much attention, but to add my two cents I want to tell the
following:
openSUSE was first used by me as an example of where there was a failure of Sage
4.3.4 to build. The same was true of Fedora, Mandriva and probably other Linux
distros too.
My point being, that if a platform is fully supported, each Sage release should
be tested on it. If we don't have the resources to test on it, then we can't
consider it supported in the way software is usually considered 'supported'.
IMHO, having a set of fully supported (i.e. tested and works) systems is
essential.
Offering help/support for someone wishing to run on other Linux distro is
another matter altogether.
I understood that among sage's virtual machines build farm, there is one
running openSuSE 11.1. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. In conclusion,
I'm strongly +1 on keeping openSuSE support, and as far as I've time and
resource for that, I'm willing to help (and I think I do) to support it.
Cheers,
Florent
I was certainly not implying openSUSE support should be dropped. Only that for
Linux $distribution, then $distribution should be dropped unless we test Sage on
$distribution.
If
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/21108.aspx
is to be believed (and I'm not implying it should be), then openSUSE is the
second most popular distribution (Ubuntu is first). If that is so, undoubtedly
Sage should be tested on openSUSE before a new version of Sage is released.
Dave
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