Thierry wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 02:43:05PM +0200, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> On 2016-08-26 14:40, Thierry wrote: >>> So, what is the usecase for package typed 'pip' ? >> >> It's only a convenient user interface: the user does not need to know >> whether a package is available using pip or as Sage package: "./sage -i >> PKGNAME" will work. > > Shall we flood the pkg directory just in case someone needs to install > trac or mercurial ? The list of potentially interesting packages is pretty > huge: https://www.scipy.org/topical-software.html > > Wouldn't it be better to advise the user that s·he can use 'sage -pip > install' when a package does not exist ?
When a package does not exist, we shouldn't advise the user to (try to) install it. ;-) I agree though that type=='pip' is a bit useless at the moment, and doesn't fit the other "types". (See also comments from Erik and me on the neighbour thread on R regarding what package types we'd need...) -leif -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
