On Sep 5, 2008, at 9:47 AM, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage-Devel, > > What do you think of (optionally) adding a doc/ subdirectory to > each spkg? > When the spkg, say foo-1.2.3.spkg is installed, the directory > > SAGE_ROOT/doc/packages/foo > > would be a copy of that doc/ subdirectory. > > That's it. > > The idea is that this would be very helpful for people on airplanes, > etc., without > internet access, who really want to browse say the GMP docs or the > Python > docs, but can't because they don't have internet access or the > tools to build the docs from source. Typically doc/ would > contain html only > or maybe html and pdf versions of *built* docs, hence adding no > dependency > for building Sage. > > This would also provide an iterative way of getting rid of the > out of date extra_docs spkg from early 2007, which nobody > wants to update. > > Thoughts? > > To make this happen: (1) people have to think it is a good idea, > and (2) a few > lines of code need to be added to local/bin/sage-spkg > > -- William
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