On 2010-Apr-01 08:37:12 +0100, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >What do others feel about these two cenaros > >1) Have official support for a large number of Linux distributions, >even though there are not the resources to test on them. > >2) Have a smaller number of officially supported distributions on >which it is practical to test Sage on before an official release of >Sage is made.
IMHO, "official support" means that a tested binary package is available for download. Sage is a comparatively complex package that relies on parts of the OS+userland that are probably not well tested. Note that it does not mean that the package has passed every doctest (though this is desirable). There could (and probably should) be a "known issues" or "errata" section in the release notes which lists problems with specific packages in specific environments. Expecting a prospective user to download and build Sage themselves is unrealistic. If they are using a supposedly supported distro and Sage doesn't actually build for them or fails its doctests, you've probably lost them as users. -- Peter Jeremy
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