William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> writes: >>> On 2012-03-09 15:48, Keshav Kini wrote: >>>> I'm probably missing something obvious, but why do you need a repository >>>> in order to apply a patch to files? Doesn't `patch` work fine? >>> >>> We need the repository for exactly the same reason as we need a >>> repository for devel/sage. When you are *developing* something, you >>> don't want to be restricted to using "patch". If you are developing the >>> Sage build process (i.e. what the root repo does), you may want to do >>> that *before* building sage. >> >> You compare the need for a root repository to the need for the >> devel/sage repository, by which I guess you mean the current Sage >> library repository, not my proposed unified repository. >> >> But we do *not* run files directly from the devel/sage repository. They > > The following is an important SIDE REMARK, which is not really related > to what you're discussing in this email, so I've changed the subject. > > We should.
I just want to say that using `setup.py develop` is *not* at odds with what I'm arguing for. In fact, it's very much aligned with what I want, which is for our development repositories to have more freedom in terms of where we put our code and how it is organized, which will facilitate eventual consolidation into a single repository. So yes, I would be quite happy to use `setup.py develop` with the Sage library. We already use it for sagenb where it works great. > The only reason we don't is because when I set things up > in 2004 (?) I think setuptools "python setup.py develop" either didn't > exist, or I had never heard of it. What *should* happen is that we > use setuptools instead of distutils, and the Sage library would live > 100% and only at SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage. Just to emphasize, the > Cython modules would then be built in place. > > Making this change would (1) avoid an enormous amount of confusion > when people type "foo??" and see the source location, which is not the > path to the file they should edit, and (2) reduce the use of disk > space by several hundred megabytes. Great! I for one wholly approve of this idea. -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
