Its true that backward compatibility is not one of the goals of Fedora, but rather testing new AND existing code. But the two problems that prevent Sage from building on Fedora 14 affect everyone: mpir has a security issue and ecl/maxima contain invalid code that just happens to compile on older gcc's. The new Fedora release only uncovered these bugs. Don't shoot the messenger :-)
On Nov 30, 2:01 pm, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 30 November 2010 09:41, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Meanwhile, Sage still fails to build on Fedora, one of the most > > popular linux distributions, because the ecl/maxima update is stuck in > > limbo (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10187). > > That's not entirely true. The latest "stabe" Sage is 4.6, which was > released on the 31st of October (30 days ago). > > Sage fails to build on the latest Fedora (version 14), which was > released on the 4th of November - i.e. after the latest Sage. > > Ultimately, Fedora is very much a test system for Redhat, in the same > way that OpenSolaris was for Sun., A compromise has to be made > between having the latest features, and having high stability. > Backwards compatibility does not appear to be very good with Fedora. > > Dave -- 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
