On Feb 16, 12:05 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2008 8:27 PM, kcrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > The bottom line is this: If William's goal is really to have *every*
> > user be a developer (or at least to contribute very minor
> > documentation corrections or tests, if that counts as developing), as
> > he's stated numerous times, and if the rest of the main Sage
> > development team agrees, then somewhere down the line there needs to
> > be something created as user-friendly with respect to this as the
> > "Evaluate" button or the extra info about Shift-Enter which has been
> > discussed recently is for end users.
>
> > I really do want to contribute in whatever way I can, but trying to
> > figure it all out myself in limited evening time away from a network
> > connection is just too big a challenge. Hence, thanks for any and all
> > responses.
>
> Precisely what sort of Sage development do you intend to do?
> Please outline some of the specific things you would do were
> the "mercurial hurdle" completely removed. Thanks!
>
> -- William
Well, of course eventually it would be nice to add functions. My main
current interest in Sage, given time constraints, would be to add more
computationally uninteresting but pedagogically useful functions and
methods for calculus or other undergraduate courses (as I think I've
conveyed in other posts). But for now I would just like to do what
Robert asked me to a few weeks ago:
> You have found a documentation typo. You should fix that and submit a patch.
And I just don't know what I did wrong in trying to follow his
instructions from the Sep. 20 discussion. Documentation is not too
hard to fix, neither is adding tests, but I can't figure out what to
do with the changed code. I don't mind using mercurial - in fact, I
am really enjoying learning all this new developer information,
otherwise I wouldn't bother to spend time on it! I'm not suggesting
that there is a "develop" button! But either I made a big mistake
(which is likely) or those instructions assumed some sort of knowledge
about the revision process which I am not familiar with, so I (and
probably many others) need more detailed instructions if we are to
help.
I hope this helps clarify. By the way, any clue on what happened to
libcsage.dylib during the branch builds? Thank you!
-kcrisman
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