On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > Hello, > > the logic for installing packages in Sage has changed recently. Let me > explain what changed: > > The command "sage -i PKGNAME" now only supports new-style packages. The > PKGNAME should be a bare package name (no version numbers or URLs or > whatever). > > Packages are now installed *with* dependencies, which means that you can > actually run "sage -i PKGNAME" right after extracting the Sage sources (or > running "make distclean") and it should work. Within Sage, the dependencies > of a package are stored in > build/pkgs/PKGNAME/dependencies. If PKGNAME is already up-to-date, then > "sage -i PKGNAME" will do nothing. > > The command "sage -f PKGNAME" will force install a package, even if it was > already installed (the dependencies are installed, but not force installed). > > The functionality of the old "sage -f" command was moved to "sage -p", there > is no replacement for the old "sage -i". So, "sage -p PKGNAME" supports > new-style and old-style packages (without considering dependencies). For > old-style packages, the bare package name or a full pathname/URL to a .spkg > may be given. > > Note that old-style packages are deprecated. If you care about an old-style > package, it should be upgraded to a new-style package. Also, the old-style > standard and archived packages on the Sage server are no longer considered. > > Recall that running "make" will now automatically upgrade new-style optional > packages which are installed and that "sage -t" will automatically doctest > new-style optional packages too. > > Finally, note that "sage -i" and "sage -f" actually support make targets, > not just packages. So you can run "sage -f doc" as alternative to "make > doc-clean && make doc" or "sage -f sagelib" as alternative to "sage -ba", > but with dependencies.
Thanks for summarizing all that so well. Is this information going to also go in the docs somewhere (e.g., in the install guide?). -- William (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.
