Posts Tagged ‘software engineering’

After compiling a source version of Sage, you can choose to run the test suite on the whole Sage library, on all modules under a given directory, or on a specified module only. For the purposes of this post, I have compiled Sage 4.1.1 from source and the top level Sage directory is

[mvngu@mod sage-4.1.1]$ pwd
/scratch/mvngu/build/sage-4.1.1

Testing [...]


Compiling Sage 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 is fairly easy, i.e. if you want to build Sage in 32-bit mode. You download a source version of Sage, uncompress the tarball, navigate to the top level directory of the source version, and issue make. But if you want to build in 64-bit mode, you need [...]


Sage 4.1.1 was released on August 14th, 2009. For the official, comprehensive release note, please refer to sage-4.1.1.txt. The following points are some of the foci of this release:

Improved data conversion between NumPy and Sage
Solaris support, Solaris specific bug fixes for NTL, zn_poly, Pari/GP, FLINT, MPFR, PolyBoRI, ATLAS
Upgrade/updates for about 8 standard packages
Three new [...]