On 3 Nov, 12:55, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sage on Solaris? And if Pari doesn't even have a comprehensive test > > suite and a new stable release I'm not getting why we are even using > > it the way we are. We surely need to be much more sceptical about it > > and test the hell out of it before trying to put it into Sage. OK it's > > in now, but is it really worth doing it that way again in the future? > > Pari has a test suite of about 3200 lines.
There's about 50,000 lines of test code in flint and it does a fraction of what Pari does in terms of functionality. > This may not be as > comprehensive as you would like, but it includes calls to every gp > function, and extra tests are added every time a bug is reported and > fixed. Moreover, this test suite is run on installation in Sage (if > SAGE_CHECK or something similar is set, e.g. during the testing > process before the new spkg is accepted). > > Secondly, partly as a result of all the testing of Pari by Sage > developers (and bugs found and fixed, some by Sage developers and > others by on of the two Pari developers), Pari has announced a new > stable release, essentially the one which is now in Sage, once it has > been through a lot more tests (there's a build log > athttp://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/buildlog.htmlwhich to my amateur eye > looks similar tohttp://build.sagemath.org/sage/one_line_per_build > That is good news! I was very disconcerted when we were told we should be putting Pari SVN in Sage. I understand the issues with developer manpower there, but this is precisely why I think we've not been doing the right thing by expecting it all Just Works. > Bill, wouldn't you be an ideal person to help get MPIR 2.1.3 into > Sage? I would certainly like everything to run twice as fast! If I understand correctly, there aren't issues with the MPIR spkg. The issues are with Sage rebuilding library dependencies when they are updated. That's not something I have any expertise worth a dime to help with. Bill. -- 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
