On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
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.
I was under the impression that, with few exceptions, all the binaries
posted pass all doctests, at least on the machines they were compiled
on. Is this not the case anymore? This is a fair number of platforms,
and could be taken to be the "official list" for any given release.
Unfortunately, the problem seems to be that just because it builds and
runs fine on my copy of openSUSE, or the one in the build farm,
doesn't mean it always will on yours.
- Robert
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