On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > 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?
+1 but with a comment: I think the basic idea has been that spkg's are more-or-less the same as an upstream tarball, so in reality anyone can create one from the upstream distribution. Is this a different case, in that you created the spkg from various pieces (some maybe you wrote yourself)?I'm jJust trying to watch that we are thoughtful about not piling more work on Michael (and William and ...). Are you willing to maintain it, at least for the near future (or if you think it will not need maintanance for some reason)? > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> > ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences > ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAklKOWwACgkQr4V8SljC5LqSUQCdH7icuAO3lnd5ubdvJowABhmn > 7VMAnislmDJhhI2ITgMwTlq11Aqaqbrg > =Kfty > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
