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Hi all, |
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After a false start earlier this week it appears that sage-4.6.1.alpha2 |
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is finally released. The previous "release" was aborted after I reported |
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tests results from sage-on-gentoo to the sage-devel mailing list. |
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We have an impact upstream. Thanks to Steve Trogdon for running the test |
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in question against my ebuilds. |
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There are many things of interest planned for 4.6.1: |
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* numpy-1.5/scipy-0.8 - we already have this but now it is official upstream |
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* maxima-5.22.1 - again we already have this but upstream is getting there |
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* cvxopt-1.1.3 - see above |
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* sphinx-1.0.4 - is stable on gentoo but broke a test in sage, with upstream |
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upgrading the test is fixed. |
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While we have a lot of this already, the main point is that the number of |
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patches we are applying is actually going down in this release. |
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And if I had been a bit more attentive working with upstream it may have been |
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going down further. |
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We have a handle on all the issues reported except for two. One about gap |
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from which we haven't heard in ages. Some changes we have made months |
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ago would have reduced the impact of this problem dramatically anyway. |
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A report by Vladimir that sage doesn't work on his system. This is more |
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worrying but we are unable to reproduce it. I am hoping it is related to |
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some tickets upstream on pynac. If it is, Vladimir's problem could be solved |
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in 4.6.1 or 4.6.2. |
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Other matters. Some of you already know this. I am relocating on the 1st of |
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December and will be probably out of action for most of December. |
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Christopher will be the sole person in charge of the overlay during that time. |
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I am sure he will have the support of the usual suspects. |
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I am not sure what his plans are regarding making alpha releases. It was |
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quite good to do some for 4.6 as there was a lot of changes being put in |
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place upstream. 4.6.1 is more interesting than I thought it would be, so |
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there is some value in doing some alpha releases. |
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I think we are in good shape for 4.6.1 as it is unlikely there will be another |
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disruptive change at this stage. |
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Oh yes, I will lose my ppc machine :( - I will get some more at my new work |
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but they won't be running gentoo (although I am already thinking of trying |
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to run prefix on them) they are running aix. |
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Francois |
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