On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, 08:16 Frédéric Chapoton, <fchapot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with and support strongly this proposal of removal of sagenb doc, > which is a step towards having "make" (and not only "make build") being > working with python3. > > The alternative would require a *lot of work* on sagenb itself : > > * merge the deprecation pull request there > * release a new sagenb > * make a ticket for upgrading the sagenb in sage > * and then the doc may still be broken as sagenb is not 100% > python3-compatible (some issues with email remains) > I believe this is independent of removal of sagenb docs from Sage proper, no? > > Frédéric > > > Le mercredi 10 octobre 2018 07:27:59 UTC+2, John H Palmieri a écrit : >> >> At https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25382, it is being proposed to >> remove the documentation for the legacy Sage notebook, a.k.a. sagenb, from >> the reference manual. Some reasons for this: >> >> - sagenb does not work with Python 3, nor does its documentation, so if >> we want the docs to build with Python 3, we need to delete it. >> - Indeed, sagenb is not really being developed, as far as I can tell. >> Maintained to some extent, but not developed. Please correct me if this is >> incorrect. >> - Some distributions remove this from the reference manual already (as >> far as I understand). >> - The reference manual should be for Sage proper, not for its components. >> The reference manual doesn't include documentation for IPython or the >> Jupyter notebook. It does include links to them, and the proposal would be >> to give as good a link as possible to sagenb. >> >> Some reasons against this: >> >> - sagenb used to be part of Sage, so its role is different from other >> components like IPython, etc. >> >> By the way, it is straightforward to remove the sagenb documentation >> completely. It is more complicated and kind of ugly, but possible, to >> include the docs in the reference manual conditionally on whether Sage is >> built with Python 2 or Python 3. This is discussed on the ticket. >> >> Any comments? >> >> -- >> John >> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
