On Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:32:55 PM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote:
>
> I don't remember if we need votes for optional spkgs.  I think we do. 
>  Anyway, here is one.
>
> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10637.  Pablo Angulo has 
> some great work here making a wide variety of Sage worksheets turn out to 
> good .rst files.  I've done some relatively minor documentation and corner 
> case fixes in the script.
>
> Now, he uses BeautifulSoup 3 as an HTML scraper, and although this could 
> be installed by the user in other ways like easy_install, it's probably 
> best just to have an optional spkg waiting for use.  The script already 
> fails with a good message (I've updated it somewhat) in case BS is not 
> installed, so we just need to be allowed to put this in the optional spot 
> so that 
>
> sage -i beautifulsoup
>
> works.  Please vote, if we need to (?):
>
> [ ] Yes
> [ ] No
>

Well, that was a rousing chorus.


Given that this is a pretty normal Python package available via pip and 
easy_install, I'll take the silence as saying "optional is ok".  Please 
comment at #10637 if you disagree. 

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