I am all for having data-scrapping tools easily available, but is there any actual advantage on having an spkg rahter than using easy_install, or is it just for the convenience of the sws2rst conversion?
That being said, why make the spkg with BS3 rather than BS4? I believe BS4 breaks some backwards compatibility, so interfacing BS3 now might force to throw in a lot of deprecation warnings when/if an eventual upgrade comes in, though the spkg being optional, one might as well consider that backwards compatibility is a non-requirement. So, summarizing, I have no strong feelings in the spke vs easy_install thing, but if having it as an optional spkg makes someone's life easier, my vote is just go for it. Cheers, Javier On Friday, June 22, 2012 2:32:55 AM UTC+1, 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 > > Review of what remains to review on this ticket would be great too! It > doesn't actually depend on the new notebook per se - it's possible to > review it without that. However, naturally there is a pull request for > inclusion post sagenb 0.9.1, whenever this is positively reviewed. > > Thanks, > - kcrisman > -- 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
