On 28 Jun., 19:28, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know there are not tons of PPC users still on these lists, but I > wanted to ask whether they had seen something weird when testing sage/ > interfaces/maxima.py. Namely, there is a guaranteed timeout (even > with SAGE_TIMEOUT=10000)! Previously I traced this to the functions > which create the tab-completion list for maxima.[tab], and I have no > reason to believe this isn't still the problem. > > Georg,
It's not a "PPC specific" issue; I do see this every now and then on my MacIntel running OS X 10.4.11, so I suspect it's some incompatibility of the sometimes rather rude way Sage interfaces with Maxima (via pexpect, using Ctrl-C from time to time) on the one hand, and on the other hand some system peculiarity/deficiency of OS X 10.4 Tiger. Or maybe the OS X 10.4 system itself is absolutely fine, but more vulnerable than all the other systems to some "race condition- like" bug still lurking somewhere in the way Sage incorporates Maxima. I remember that once Michael Abshoff had created some mechanism to make the Sage/Maxima interface (i.e. the pexpect interface in general) produce verbose output into some log files (via setting an enironment variable?), but I didn't get around to do any testing in that direction, and then Michael left the Sage project. And I don't think it's a problem with the general pexpect interface --- although going this way might be the only way to go, starting to hunt down the bug. Cheers, Georg > anyone with access to the Skynet PPC computer (varro?)... any > ideas? Have you seen this? > > - kcrisman -- 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
