On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Ralf Hemmecke<r...@hemmecke.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > I was just looking through the sage-sage script.
Thanks for working on the Sage build system!! > > In the definition of the "install" function appears > > if [ $1 = '-m' -o $1 = '-s' ]; then > OPT=$OPT" "$1 > shift > fi > > I see > > echo " -i [packages] -- install the given Sage packages" > echo " if no packages given, print a list of all > installed" > echo " -i -s [packages] -- install the given Sage packages, not > deleting their spkg/build directories." > > in the documentation, but what is '-m' for? According to sage-spkg, it > looks like '-s' and '-m' are treated in exactly the same way. > > Maybe '-m' can be removed. I would even go that far and say, also remove > '-s' and rather replace it by '--keep-spkg-build-directory'. I would certainly be glad if that long option existed. I would like at least one of -s or -m to stay though, since I *very* frequently use this option. I would be fine with taking only "-s". > > If I read the shell scripts correctly, then also > > echo " -f [packages] -- force build of the given Sage package > (even if already installed)" > > can be called as '-f -s'. Shouldn't that be documented properly? Sure. Thanks. William > > Ralf > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
