Do you have an example of using pip to compile and install such a binary.
I've spent quite some time trying to find whether it was possible to use
pip for this and couldn't find anything.

Nico

Op wo 8 jul. 2020 om 14:38 schreef Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com>:

>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, 13:08 Nico Van Cleemput, <nico.vancleem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear list
>>
>> Due to various reasons I haven't been able to keep up to date with the
>> development of Sage. However, I still use Sage in my research and mainly
>> various of my co-authors use Sage. Our workflow often consists of me
>> writing some external programs (usually in C) and additional several Python
>> scripts which interface with these programs. When the program and scripts
>> are mature enough, some of these are released as supplementary material for
>> some papers, but usually they are too niche to be included in Sage. The way
>> this needs to be handled has changed several times through the years, and I
>> wanted to inform myself as to what the best way to handle this would be.
>>
>> It used to be that my co-authors could simply install such a package with
>> the command:
>>
>> sage -f my-package.spkg
>>
>> This changed about five years ago, and since then my instructions to them
>> read roughly as
>>
>> * copy the folder mypackage (containing ) into SAGE_ROOT/build/pkgs
>> * copy the file mypackage.tar.gz (containing the source code) into
>> SAGE_ROOT/upstream.
>> * run the command: $ sage --package fix-checksum mypackage
>> * run the command: $ sage -i mypackage
>>
>> The third step changed at version 7.3 (it used to be $ sage -sh sage-fix-
>> pkg-checksums)
>>
>> Nowadays, it seems that this has changed again, because I get reports
>> that installing the package this way hangs indefinitely.
>>
>> I mainly have two questions:
>> * Is there another way to handle this, or am I doing the right thing and
>> do I just need to keep the instructions up to date.
>> * Is there a clear place where this is documented? As I said I haven't
>> been able to keep up with Sage development recently, so each time I had to
>> dive into the documentation and puzzle the instructions for these kinds of
>> external packages together from different places in the documentation.
>> There is the repository https://github.com/sagemath/sage_sample which
>> gives a sample of how to create a package for Sage, however this is about
>> packaging Python code and not about binaries that need to be compiled and
>> made available to Sage.
>>
> pip is able  to install more than just python, it basically can do
> arbitrary data installs.
> People routinely use pip to install scripts in ~/.local/bin/, say.
>
> We should add this to https://github.com/sagemath/sage_sample
> Unfortunately it needs hands to work on:
> https://github.com/sagemath/sage_sample/issues/37
>
>
> Then there is pipx, a pip-installable package that could come to your
> rescue - something that specifically
> takes care of the PATH stuff.
> https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/installation/
>
> Not sure how well it plays along with Sage, though.
>
>
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Nico
>>
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