Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] 4.6.1.alpha2 and absence

[Christopher Schwan <cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de>]

Hi,

On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:13:48 François Bissey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After a false start earlier this week it appears that sage-4.6.1.alpha2
> is finally released. The previous "release" was aborted after I reported
> tests results from sage-on-gentoo to the sage-devel mailing list.
> We have an impact upstream. Thanks to Steve Trogdon for running the test
> in question against my ebuilds.
> 
> There are many things of interest planned for 4.6.1:
> * numpy-1.5/scipy-0.8 - we already have this but now it is official
> upstream * maxima-5.22.1 - again we already have this but upstream is
> getting there * cvxopt-1.1.3 - see above
> * sphinx-1.0.4 - is stable on gentoo but broke a test in sage, with
> upstream upgrading the test is fixed.
> 
> While we have a lot of this already, the main point is that the number of
> patches we are applying is actually going down in this release.
> And if I had been a bit more attentive working with upstream it may have
> been going down further.
> 
> We have a handle on all the issues reported except for two. One about gap
> from which we haven't heard in ages. Some changes we have made months
> ago would have reduced the impact of this problem dramatically anyway.
> A report by Vladimir that sage doesn't work on his system. This is more
> worrying but we are unable to reproduce it. I am hoping it is related to
> some tickets upstream on pynac. If it is, Vladimir's problem could be
> solved in 4.6.1 or 4.6.2.
> 
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Other matters. Some of you already know this. I am relocating on the 1st of
> December and will be probably out of action for most of December.
> Christopher will be the sole person in charge of the overlay during that
> time. I am sure he will have the support of the usual suspects.

Lets hope so ;) But yes, I will take care for the overlay. Since I am very 
busy this lecture period expect me to be active on weekends.

> 
> I am not sure what his plans are regarding making alpha releases.

I do not plan to make alpha releases - again, lack of time :-/

> It was
> quite good to do some for 4.6 as there was a lot of changes being put in
> place upstream. 4.6.1 is more interesting than I thought it would be, so
> there is some value in doing some alpha releases.

Definitely - 4.6 and 4.6.1 introduced a lot of new packages.

> I think we are in good shape for 4.6.1 as it is unlikely there will be
> another disruptive change at this stage.
> 
> 
> Oh yes, I will lose my ppc machine :( - I will get some more at my new work
> but they won't be running gentoo (although I am already thinking of trying
> to run prefix on them) they are running aix.
> 
> Francois