On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: >> Hi Keshav (et al.), >> >> I think the reason I implemented the kludgy "sage -clone" Sage branch >> thing (way back in maybe March 2006) was because we had no dependency >> checking for Pyrex files. Now that we have dependency checking, >> lightweight branching should be able to accomplish the same thing much >> more efficiently, right? > > Well, I normally wouldn't write this contentless response, but since > you've addressed me specifically: > > I have no idea how Cython works, it all seems like magic to me :) So I > have no idea whether there's some problem with getting rid of `sage > -clone`. But even if not, then I think it's Cython which needs to be > fixed. `sage -clone` should not exist, IMO.
Cython is just a py(x) to C compiler. The problem is not Cython per se, but re-building when changing branches. Each "clone" keeps it's own independent set of build artifacts, so switching between them does not require a re-build. > We should be able to put whatever we want at $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage, > whether it be a symlink to some other directory, or just a directory > itself, and expect Sage to read its library from there. Sage should not > know or care about where a symlink at $SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage points to. > > But since you're calling it a kludge, I guess you agree with me on this. :) > > -Keshav > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! > > -- > 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 -- 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
