[bug#41167] Julia: fix current patches, upgrade to 1.4.1

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Nicolò,

On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 12:13, Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Does this fix the unreproducible behaviour of Julia? As described in
> > this bug [1] and discussed at length for v1.3.
>
> Unfortunately, not (actually not tested, but no changes were made from
> 1.4.0).  I've not received feedback on the long issue I opened [1], so I
> think I'll propose one fix at a time hoping this way they'll eventually
> merge them.

Thank you for the explanations.
And please report on guix-devel or on 22304@debuugs.gnu.org or
personally the status of your proposals.

BTW, in the meantime of an hypothetical merge, does it make sense to
add a reproducible Julia package using your unmerged patches?

(define-public julia-reproducible
  (package
    (inherit julia)
    (name "julia-reproducible")
    (... patches ...))


> A new update that adds tests on julia packages and adding more packages
> is coming.  Please, let me know if you have any package you use
> day-by-day so that I can add them to verify everything works.

Nothing fancy.
When I am back to ideas of my previous job, I play with Krylov linear
solver stuff: LinearOperator.jl, IterativeSolvers.jl, Krylov.jl and
other.
Or time to time I am doing some experiments with Flux, FFTW, packages
in JuliaLinearAlgebra or JuliaMath.


> > hope that your PhD defense was fine?
> My Thesis has been accepted, but due to Covid-related emergency, my
> defense has been planned for the last day of this month.

Wish you all the best!


Cheers,
simon