> By automatically running those tests, you are forcing people to care > about stuff that they didn't want to care about. > > I don't really care myself about the mathematica interface. But it happens that mathematica 10.0 is installed on my machine in my lab and that most of the people in my lab use mathematica rather than sage. They won't test the mathematica doctests in the sage library since they are not sage developpers. But, in the next year, I might have a research discussion with them where they will be using mathematica and I will be using sage. And it is possible that I will need to use the interface. And if the doctests are broken, then, I won't be happy. And I won't be able to convince them about using Sage or that interface.
Personnaly, I want the mathematica optional tests to be run on my machine when I run "make ptestlong" if mathematica is available on my machine. I we don't agree with this, then, I would like a command like the one suggested by dimpase [1]: make ptest OPTIONAL+=mathematica [1] http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18904#comment:27 Sébastien -- 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.
