On Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:12:16 UTC+1, William wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > It seems to me that binary distributions are not guaranteed to be able > to > > build some optional packages. > > Side question -- Is anything guaranteed to build all optional > packages? What's the current status of testing them? I keep raising > this issue... >
some optional packages are maintained, and tested by maintainers (and/or other users) on a regular basis. But this is ad hoc, surely. And some are obsolete, like gcc 4.6.4 one. Should we dedicate few patchbots to test optional packages? > > > There were numerous reports on sage-support, and here is another > example: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18198 > > > > However, reading http://sagemath.org/doc/installation/quick-guide.html > > gives you a false impression to this effect. > > > > Should the text in this link be adjusted to tell people to use source > > distros? > > > > Dima > > > > -- > > 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+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (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.
