Hi, I still don't know my way around the completely re-organized sage-6+. I constantly have questions like:
- where is the temporary build directory when installing packages? (used to be spkg/build) - where are packages stored? (used to be spkg/standard or spkg/optional) - where are the databases? (used to be data/) - where is the sage library source code? (used to be devel/sage). Literally every single answer is different now than it used to be. I thought -- heh, maybe the answers are enumerated in README.txt now, since some of them used to be there. Upon looking in sage-6.2.rc0, not only did I not find the new answers, I found old answers, e.g., salvus@compute18dc0:/usr/local/sage/current$ tail README.txt Almost every spkg in $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard/ is a bzip2-compressed tarball (currently, the only exception is the bzip2 spkg itself, which [...] The next natural place to look would be the Sage Developer's guide, but I couldn't find any answers there. I can of course figure out the answers to the above questions using find, grep, looking at the Makefile, etc., and actually *have done that* several times already. However, since the answers are what is canonical in maybe Andrew Ohana's mind, but not mine, they never stick, and I can't remember any of them yet. I find it totally arbitrary -- which is fine, if answers to questions like the above are instant to find. Probably the answer to what the layout is, is in a trac ticket or wiki page. I have no idea. I vaguely recall Andrew explaining it to me in person once or twice. Anyway, I think the README.txt should be (1) correct -- not telling us how it used to be (obviously), and (2) answer all questions like the ones above. What are your questions about "where stuff is"? -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
