Hi Sage-Devel, Did we change the build system so patches are applied in alphabetical order by name? That seems like a possibly bad idea. For example, yesterday a student in my class fixed a bug in pexect [1], which involved patching, and the moment I saw the diff [2], I was suspicious because the patch application order was nowhere specified. Indeed, on testing, it failed for that very reason. Shouldn't the order of the patches we apply be explicitly specified in a file... or if it is by date, we should require the patch filename to start with an ISO timestamp. Just curious.
[1] http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15178 [2] http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/commit/?h=5bd09123dafcf5df768a02365f6df93a44087777&id=815dd05a67da0f011928c04db72d29fb812d8916 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
