On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Martin
> Albrecht<m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> is there any compelling technical reason why we are using all.py for module
>> level initialisation instead of the Python standard __init__.py?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>
> No, there is no compelling technical reason.    The actual reason is
> that I mistakenly thought that __init__.py should be empty long long
> ago.
> It's simply a historical mistake that we use all.py instead of
> __init__.py.  I would welcome somebody fixing this, assuming I'm right
> that this is just a mistake on my part.

In that case, the Developers' Guide needs to be adjusted accordingly.
In particular, this section

http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/coding_in_python.html#creating-a-new-directory

-- 
Regards
Minh Van Nguyen

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