On Thursday, 30 April 2015 17:11:39 UTC+1, Bill Page wrote:
>
> On 30 April 2015 at 05:29, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 30 April 2015 10:09:55 UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 23:17:19 UTC+1, Bill Page wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > PPS. if you really are pressed for time, I can submit this patch
> >>> > instead...
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Thanks I would really appreciate that.
> >>
> >> a proper patch would include a doctest for the issue, you know, that's
> why
> >> sage-trac is not too a hammer :-)
> >> Did you check that your patch doesn't break things like SMC's
> >> show(axiom('...')) ?
> >>
>
> No I did not check. I still think that sage-trac is a very heavy and
> complex solution to a simple problem.
>
> <rant>
> This is just a personal opinion but contrary to common intuition I do
> not see any real evidence that the Sage developer emphasis on "doc
> tests" has resulted in any fewer errors or problems in Sage in
> comparison to other systems. I am not sure why this is, but my
> personal experience is that Sage is just as hard to use and just as
> likely to return an obscure error message as any of the other open
> source computer algebra systems that I have used. My prior experience
> with commercial systems is not that much better,
>
> Anyway, in spite of being very happy to use Sage and to try to fix
> problems I encounter if/when I have sufficient time, I am very
> reluctant to invest the extra amount of time to learn and over come my
> distaste for the Sage development model in general.
> </rant>
>
well, for rants we have a special newsgroup called sage-flame.
sorry for teaching you a part of sage development process against your will
:-)
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