On 26 March 2018 at 00:09, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given this, there should be no tickets made blockers merely on the basis > that Sage broke on your favourite patchbot or laptop... > > Dima >
I think the method Wolfram Research follow with Mathematica has a *lot* of merit. With respect to Linux, they say: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/system-requirements.html "Ubuntu 12.04–17.10 RHEL 6–7 CentOS 6–7 Debian 7–9 openSUSE 12.1–13.2/Leap 42.3 Fedora 14–27 *Mathematica 11.3 has been fully tested on the Linux distributions listed above. On new Linux distributions, additional compatibility libraries may need to be installed. It is likely that Mathematica will run successfully on other distributions based on the Linux kernel 2.6 or later.* So in other words, I would suggest 1) Pick a set of distributions you want to support - not necessarily the same as Wolfram Research. 2) Make sure there are patchbots for *all* of them, which test* all optional packages*. 3) Make tickets blockers if they fail to work 100% on one of the fully supported platforms. 4) If it is impossible to get some aspect of Sage working properly on a fully supported platform, either drop that part of Sage, or remove that distribution from the list of fully supported platforms. Some of the ideas presented above by some people, would in my opinion at least, have a negative aspect to the quality of the code. Dave -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
