On Sunday, 18 March 2012 20:57:54 UTC+8, William wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <> wrote: > > On 2012-03-17 14:39, Keshav Kini wrote: > >> If you instead tell people to base > >> their patches on the stable release > > I certainly don't want this. > > > >> Why do patches need to be based on the latest dev release? > > What do you mean by this question? Is it rhetorical? > I guess that by "based on" Keshav meant the amount of history your patch carries, not that it is a patch against a stable release. Otherwise this makes little sense indeed.
That is, to get a working sandbox you would start by checking out a branch that knows all its history back to a stable release, and then, if needed, synchronize it with other people by pulling their changes into your sandbox. Dima > If I based http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10281 on Sage-4.8 > instead of a recent beta, it would be totally impossible to apply my > patch (or merge my branch) into Jereon's current development branch, > because parts of it had to be totally rewritten to take into account > that somebody added "slice functionality" to vector_integer_dense > after sage-4.8 was released, which significantly impacts how my code > has to be implemented. > > -- William > > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > 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
