Hello, Including Windows binaries with Sage's source code distribution (sage-x.y.z.tar) is bad, in my opinion, because binaries can hide viruses, especially Microsoft Windows binaries. We are currently shipping some, because of GAP.
This email concerns the gap-4.4.12.p1 spkg that is included in Sage-4.4.tar (and I guess earlier versions of Sage since February). I'm not sure exactly what happened, but David Joyner and I screwed up bigtime giving that a positive review. That package adds a bunch of Windows binaries to the GAP spkg. The Sage source tarball must absolutely never contains windows binaries. So, for future reference (and I'm talking about me here too), people please be careful to check this sort of thing. And please be especially careful with updating the GAP spkg. It's upstream I think that includes these binaries in the "source" file: gap4r4p12.tar.bz2 (see [1] below). (I'm cc'ing upstream, in the hopes they will stop shipping windows binaries with their source distribution.) See blocker ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8774 which is about removing this stuff from the GAP spkg. (And volunteers to write something so that this sort of thing can't happen again... welcome!) -- William [1] wst...@boxen:/tmp$ wget ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap44/tar.bz2/gap4r4p12.tar.bz2 --16:48:48-- ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap44/tar.bz2/gap4r4p12.tar.bz2 => `gap4r4p12.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.gap-system.org... 138.251.192.244 Connecting to ftp.gap-system.org|138.251.192.244|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/gap/gap44/tar.bz2 ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR gap4r4p12.tar.bz2 ... done. Length: 47,715,810 (46M) (unauthoritative) 100%[=============================================================================>] 47,715,810 207.40K/s ETA 00:00 16:52:19 (224.11 KB/s) - `gap4r4p12.tar.bz2' saved [47715810] wst...@boxen:/tmp$ tar jxvf gap4r4p12.tar.bz2 gap4r4/ gap4r4/etc/ gap4r4/etc/GPL gap4r4/etc/gap_indent.vim gap4r4/etc/xrmtcmd.c gap4r4/etc/README.vim-utils gap4r4/etc/emacs/ gap4r4/etc/emacs/gap-mode.doc gap4r4/etc/emacs/gap-mode.el gap4r4/etc/emacs/comint.el gap4r4/etc/emacs/gap-process.el gap4r4/etc/debug.vim gap4r4/etc/debugvim.txt gap4r4/etc/gap.vim gap4r4/description4r4p7 gap4r4/bin/ gap4r4/bin/libW11.dll gap4r4/bin/gapp.pif gap4r4/bin/regtool.exe gap4r4/bin/gapp.bat gap4r4/bin/gap.dll gap4r4/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gcc/ gap4r4/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gcc/gap.dll gap4r4/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gcc/gac gap4r4/bin/i686-pc-cygwin-gcc/config.h gap4r4/bin/gapw95.exe gap4r4/bin/gapicon.bmp gap4r4/bin/gapw95p.exe gap4r4/bin/usemem.bat gap4r4/bin/cygpanel-8.dll gap4r4/bin/cygncurses-8.dll gap4r4/bin/rxvt.exe gap4r4/bin/gap.pif gap4r4/bin/cygwin1.dll gap4r4/bin/gap.bat gap4r4/bin/gaprxvt.bat gap4r4/grp/ -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
