Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage/tests/startup.py fails too often

2010-09-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mitesh Patel wrote: > On 09/18/2010 02:10 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Niles wrote: >>> but the test only runs on sage.math, so is it only a bug on >>> sage.math? >> >> Well, that was a lot easier than having some kind of system >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage/tests/startup.py fails too often

2010-09-18 Thread Mitesh Patel
On 09/18/2010 02:10 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Niles wrote: >> but the test only runs on sage.math, so is it only a bug on >> sage.math? > > Well, that was a lot easier than having some kind of system > calibration in place for all other computers... We *could*

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage/tests/startup.py fails too often

2010-09-18 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Niles wrote: > >> > Well, that is a different issue.  I think that sage/tests/startup.py is >> > a bad test because it is too unpredictable.  Sometimes it works, >> > sometimes it doesn't, depending for example on the load of the system. > > indeed; I've had troubl

[sage-devel] Re: sage/tests/startup.py fails too often

2010-09-18 Thread Niles
> > Well, that is a different issue.  I think that sage/tests/startup.py is > > a bad test because it is too unpredictable.  Sometimes it works, > > sometimes it doesn't, depending for example on the load of the system. indeed; I've had trouble with this too > Removing the test rather than fixin