[sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-21 Thread kcrisman
> I really wonder what those patches are about. AFAIK they are related to > backporting changes to releases, but the need for this disappears > completely if the upstream sources are all the time consistent with Sage. Under the current development and testing model, that would be extremely hard

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-21 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:27 PM, kcrisman wrote: > Because Sage may sometimes have custom patches to ECL that weren't in > upstream at the time but are now, I don't know if it can be done 100% > automatically. I really wonder what those patches are about. AFAIK they are related to backporting c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-21 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > do you like this to pull updates/patches from somewhere for testing, too? > That's what the Sage's patchbot does, pulls patches from Sage's trac, and > tests them. > Or only "full releases"? > No, as I said in my original email, I would li

[sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-21 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:23:41 AM UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > That's what the Sage's patchbot does, pulls patches from Sage's trac, and > tests them. > Just for the record, this is a completely separate automated testing system: the build bot compiles potential releases on a variety

[sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-20 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Hi Juanjo, do you like this to pull updates/patches from somewhere for testing, too? That's what the Sage's patchbot does, pulls patches from Sage's trac, and tests them. Or only "full releases"? Dima -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from thi

[sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-20 Thread kcrisman
Juanjo, it sounds like you want to read http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/producing_spkgs.html and http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/patching_spkgs.html Because Sage may sometimes have custom patches to ECL that weren't in upstream at the time but are now, I don't know if it can be don

[sage-devel] Re: Help with automated testing of ECL

2011-12-19 Thread Nils Bruin
On Dec 18, 10:09 am, Juanjo wrote: > Somebody has suggested me that there is a way to get ECL automatically > built and tested on the platforms that Sage support. Something like a > buildbot. > For your information, building ECL with a preinstalled copy of GMP takes > about 5 minutes on a modern c