Thanks Rob, that is extremely helpful.
On Mar 1, 3:22 pm, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > Phaedon, > > This won't address all your questions, but will get you headed in the > right path. > > At the system command line: > sage -clone finance-test > > will make a copy of the a tree parallel to devel/sage-main, and the > symbolic link at the same level named devel/sage will point to the new > tree devel/sage-finance-test. > > You can experiment safely in this sandbox and for free you get a > Mercurial repository to track your changes. In the developer's guide > read about the hg_sage commands to use a simplified interface to the > repository. > > If you edit files under devel/sage-finance-test, then at the system > command line sage -b will rebuild just the edited files. > > If you now run sage, at startup it will report in the first few lines > which sandbox you are playing in. sage -br <name> will switch between > sandboxes. > > sage -advanced will list a few of these commands. > > I'm new to all this, so others can add, correct or clarify. Someday, > I might write-up some of this (and more) for fellow rookies. > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
