One of the things that I like about sage is python, but what I like least about it is documentation, which is often missing or inadequate.
Because there is no documentation about the pickle_jar, and how it should be used, I wasted 4+ hours on this. First I was told to replace the broken pickles, which I did. When it was explained to me that this wasn't how the pickle_jar is supposed to work I found the documentation on register_unpickle_override to be about as useful as trying to explain matrix multiplication using 1x1 matrices. A non-trivial example would help. Sage needs documentation explaining what the pickle_jar is for, and what should be done when a pickle in the jar is broken. Having documentation would have saved me 3+ hours, some of Jeroen's time, plus all of the time people have spent on this thread. Old hands in sage know what the pickle_jar is for and how to use it but I don't see how newer people can learn this if it is not written down somewhere. To end on a positive note, thanks again to Nils who gave me the hint that I needed to fix the problems with #9265 and #13072. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
