On Thursday, December 26, 2013 5:12:13 PM UTC-8, R. Andrew Ohana wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Volker Braun 
> <vbrau...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
> I've been working on a "git trac" subcommand to complement the git suite 
>> with trac integration instead of the separate UI that the sage -dev scripts 
>> present. This project is the basis for my release management scripts, so I 
>> have been eating my own dog food for a while now. I think it is now in a 
>> state where it would be useful to others, so I propose to integrate it as a 
>> standard spkg. Obligatory vote:
>>
>> [ ]  Yes, please
>> [X ]  Make it optional
>> [ ]  No, you stink
>>
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15587
>>
>
> IMO, I think for developers who are using git directly that they should be 
> installing this under /usr/local (or some other prefix that they include in 
> their paths). In particular, I think it is a very bad idea to integrate the 
> codebase into the sage codebase for two reasons:
>
> 1. It will make it more difficult to get to install the tools in 
> /usr/local (e.g.), as you will have to hunt down in the sage source code to 
> find the appropriate setup.py.
> 2. We will run into the issue of the tools suddenly having a different 
> feature set while switching between branches (this was incredibly 
> frustrating for the dev scripts).
>
> -- 
> Andrew
>

I concur with Andrew on this!

Anne 

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