Even considering the pivotal rôle of polynomials and fraction fields thereof ?
Le jeudi 20 décembre 2018 20:47:03 UTC+1, John H Palmieri a écrit : > > Critical but it's not a blocker, in my opinion. > > > On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 11:36:15 AM UTC-8, Emmanuel Charpentier > wrote: >> >> This <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/JuxpFfaKYzA> seems >> seems to be a showstopper, enough to trump the best laid out plans of mice, >> men and mathematicians. >> >> No ticket yet, but I agree that this seems critical. >> >> Le mardi 18 décembre 2018 12:50:44 UTC+1, E. Madison Bray a écrit : >>> >>> As pointed out by Samuel last month [1] the transition freeze (i.e. >>> new package versions) for the next major Debian release (buster) is >>> coming up January 12 [2]. This is important for Sage and those >>> working to package Sage for Debian, as it will impact what version of >>> Sage is available in Debian, and by extension big name Debian-based >>> distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint that carry with them probably >>> the majority of users on Linux. >>> >>> Setting what version of Sage will be in Debian, prior to the freeze, >>> is not such a big deal in its own right as not many packages depend on >>> Sage. However, it does impact what versions of Sage's many >>> dependencies can be included, and GAP perhaps has the largest impact >>> there, as there are also many packages that depend on GAP (mostly GAP >>> packages). >>> >>> The biggest sticking point right now to packaging Sage for Debian is >>> thus what version of GAP can go in Debian as well (and I don't think >>> the GAP community will be too happy about it if the GAP version gets >>> held back because of Sage; though the more likely outcome there is >>> that Sage gets held back (or excluded entirely) if it can't work with >>> the new GAP). >>> >>> Thus some of us have been working hard to find a working convergence >>> between Sage and GAP 4.10.x. That work is nearly ready [3] (pending >>> some needed patches to GAP), and given the normal rate of Sage's >>> release cycle it would be a shame to have this work excluded from Sage >>> 8.5, considering that it is the major blocker for Debian. >>> >>> Therefore I propose doing a few more rounds of Sage 8.5 pre-releases >>> specifically with the focus of upgrading GAP: Completing #22626 which >>> I think will be ready-enough by tomorrow (I would prefer to wait until >>> GAP 4.10.1 is out but starting testing now would be better) and >>> sending it to the patchbots, while putting a hold on any other >>> non-critical fixes. >>> >>> If for some reason that's impossible then we should quickly release a >>> Sage 8.6 that is focused primarily on GAP 4.10 compatibility. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Erik >>> >>> >>> >>> [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/ztLmB2xWFig/kWk7LGycCQAJ >>> [2] https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html >>> [3] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22626 >>> >> -- 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.
