Re: [sage-devel] Re: Using valgrind to find segfaults

2010-11-03 Thread John Cremona
> OK, let me add that in addition to be told the time is right, Robert > Bradshaw, John Cremona, and I were all in the same place at Sage Days > looking for a challenging 3-day project.   And John really wanted the > new PARI since it fixed some bugs.  Also, he offered us a free > dinner... > Did

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Using valgrind to find segfaults

2010-11-03 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > > > On 3 Nov, 14:46, William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Bill Hart >> wrote: >> > Finally, testing each individual spkg (against its dependencies) on >> > all supported platforms *before* having to download and build the >>

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Using valgrind to find segfaults

2010-11-03 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > > On 3 Nov, 12:55, John Cremona wrote: >> > Sage on Solaris? And if Pari doesn't even have a comprehensive test >> > suite and a new stable release I'm not getting why we are even using >> > it the way we are. We surely need to be much more scept

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Using valgrind to find segfaults

2010-11-03 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > Finally, testing each individual spkg (against its dependencies) on > all supported platforms *before* having to download and build the > whole of the latest Sage seems to me to be a logical first step. I'm > not seeing even that happen at the mom

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Using valgrind to find segfaults

2010-11-03 Thread John Cremona
> Sage on Solaris? And if Pari doesn't even have a comprehensive test > suite and a new stable release I'm not getting why we are even using > it the way we are. We surely need to be much more sceptical about it > and test the hell out of it before trying to put it into Sage. OK it's > in now, but