On Sunday, July 25, 2010, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > If you make a binary with "sage -bdist", and then try to do "sage > -sdist" in the resulting tree, you get a perfectly good tarball, but it > won't build Sage, since the tarball doesn't have a spkg/base directory. > I just learned this the hard way, as my 4.5.2.alpha1 tree started out > somehow as a bdist'ed tree, and now I need to fix it up so that I can > sdist alpha1. > > I would appreciate it if "sage -sdist" warned you if you did this, and > perhaps gave instructions for fixing up your tree so that you could > successfully run -sdist. Thoughts?
Sdist should 100% work from a binary. That it doesn't now is a bug. This used to work - I remember doing sage releases myself starting from a binary. Thanks for all your great work on this release. - William > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake > ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > ------- > -- William Stein 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
