[Cython] 0.11.2 release schedule?

[Robert Bradshaw]

On May 12, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Michael Abshoff wrote:

> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>> Michael Abshoff wrote:
>>> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>>>> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>> Hi Dag,
>>>
>>>> Status on Sage is that these fail:
>>>>
>>>>          sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_ZZ_pX.pyx"
>>>>          sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/rings/integer.pyx"
>>>>          sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/plot/plot.py"
>>>>          sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/interfaces/maxima.py"
>>>>
>>>> The last two seem to be because of fragile doctests.
>>> Can you post the first doctest failure from each failing file?
>>
>> This is on Sage 3.4.1 (my own build).
>
> Ok. Which compiler and host? 3.4.2 is out by the way and 4.0.alpha0
> should drop tonight :)
>
>
>> sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/libs/ntl/ntl_ZZ_pX.pyx"
>> ********************************************************************* 
>> *
>
> <SNIP>
>
>>      OverflowError: can't convert negative value to unsigned int
>> ********************************************************************* 
>> *
>
> Ok, changing semantics like that makes me queasy, but I assume you  
> guys
> know what you are doing. It seems like a rather deep fundamental  
> change
> for 0.11.1->0.11.2.

I consider it a bug that we used to allow this--what it's doing now  
is converting -1 to 2^64-1.

The patch for this is already in Sage: http://trac.sagemath.org/ 
sage_trac/attachment/ticket/5803/5803-cython-0.11.1.patch

- Robert