From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PK6w9-00026O-7G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:14:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BC59E05F8; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgate-02.zdv.uni-mainz.de (mailgate-02.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2906BE05F8 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:13:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=uni-mainz.de; i=cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de; q=dns/txt; s=ironport; t=1290334438; x=1321870438; h=from:to:subject:date:references:in-reply-to:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:message-id; z=From:=20Christopher=20Schwan=20|To:=20|Subject: =20Re:=20[gentoo-science]=20[sage-on-gentoo]=204.6.1.alph a2=20and=20absence|Date:=20Sun,=2021=20Nov=202010=2011:13 :55=20+0100|References:=20<201011202313.49091.f.r.bissey@ massey.ac.nz>|In-Reply-To:=20<201011202313.49091.f.r.biss ey@massey.ac.nz>|MIME-Version:=201.0 |Content-Transfer-Encoding:=20quoted-printable |Message-ID:=20<201011211113.55461.cschwan@students.uni-m ainz.de>; bh=34bybZWOA2RxS330SBQJ1YQu6Cueojr4wxpJ53w7CXI=; b=PuZYtNAHsqPyWHeNM79sCv2GZp7LlnEpDOjH8mG9xCjf7koaPHPepcWy 6EgRgJ7Q87gl6IPRKjBkpD19miLVMYJ9+JriE9QhmUrHwXzTj+yt/hSqE Hc1u9mgCj0qzpdPeLwb6gt0aWhC4aulpNKhkWMLgftlvdZJgzrwwF9qzV k=; X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhYFAC6A6EwKXgZQ/2dsb2JhbACUYo51uySFSwSNcg Received: from e14hub-01.zdv.uni-mainz.de ([10.94.6.80]) by mailgate-02.zdv.uni-mainz.de with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2010 11:13:57 +0100 Received: from gnuke-notebook.localnet (84.129.255.253) by mail.uni-mainz.de (10.94.6.82) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:13:56 +0100 From: Christopher Schwan To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] 4.6.1.alpha2 and absence Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:13:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r12; KDE/4.5.3; i686; ; ) References: <201011202313.49091.f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz> In-Reply-To: <201011202313.49091.f.r.bissey@massey.ac.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <201011211113.55461.cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de> X-Originating-IP: [84.129.255.253] X-Archives-Salt: da148546-1468-43f8-b59d-72d090426d31 X-Archives-Hash: 52b3fbf702b27c3fa66d95b74f9a4c15 Hi, On Saturday 20 November 2010 11:13:48 Fran=E7ois Bissey wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > ------------------------ >=20 > 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= =20 busy this lecture period expect me to be active on weekends. >=20 > 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. >=20 >=20 > Oh yes, I will lose my ppc machine :( - I will get some more at my new wo= rk > but they won't be running gentoo (although I am already thinking of trying > to run prefix on them) they are running aix. >=20 > Francois