Hello all, The SageTeX package needs two basic pieces to work: a pure Python module, and a pure LaTeX style file. Since a Sage installation is necessary for either of those pieces to be useful, it seems like it would be wise to include SageTeX as a spkg.
I have a preliminary version ready to go: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/drake/sagetex-2.0.spkg The spkg installs a single Python module, sagetex.py, into the $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/python tree. The rest of the files it installs are documentation and TeX files; all those are installed into $SAGE_ROOT/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/sagetex. The directory fits with typical TeX installations, so that anyone who wants to use SageTeX can do something like cp -r $SAGE_ROOT/local/share/texmf/* ~/texmf/ and run texhash to make their TeX installation aware of the sagetex.sty file. I think having the sagetex.py module built-in to Sage makes sense, as it makes it easier to use SageTeX (which in any case doesn't work unless you have Sage installed) and the Python module is under 5KB. The rest of the spkg is mostly pre-built documentation. So, should we include SageTeX as a spkg? Dan -- --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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