François Bissey <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:02:57 Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 03/03/2012 07:50 PM, François Bissey wrote: >> > No, I was refering to the ability to clone the sage hg repository and >> > switch to your own "homebrew" version of sage by running "sage -b". That >> > isn't supported right now in Gentoo (although I have idea on how to >> > achieve it I haven't done the perspiration yet to make it happen).
Please note that, judging from recent posts on sage-devel by William and others, `sage -b <argument>` and `sage -clone` are considered old hacks that nobody likes anymore (and that includes me, certainly). The nice way to do this would be to have a devel/sage directory in which you could checkout various revisions from the repository and build them. The main thing that's missing from that scenario is the ability to cache Cython intermediate objects (and gcc intermediate objects for that matter) to avoid rebuilding things again and again when switching back and forth between two commonly visited revisions of the repository. So I think that's the direction in which effort should be applied. > I think you are missing the point. Sage has tools to enable you to only > rebuild a minimal subset of files - it is disabled in sage-on-gentoo - > that enables to test a small change relatively quickly. If I want to do the > same with s-o-g I have to rebuild the whole thing. Burcin said he is planning to have a devel/ toplevel directory in lmonade for development of Sage and perhaps certain other packages. I imagine that this will make it easier to implement the partial rebuilds that we now do with `sage -b`, since it's similar to how we currently have a devel/sage-main directory in our Sage tree. -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
