This is the alternative : what would need to be done to fix the same 
problem in another way.

Le mercredi 10 octobre 2018 10:08:00 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
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> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, 08:16 Frédéric Chapoton, <fchap...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> 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)
>>
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> I believe this is independent of removal of sagenb docs from Sage proper, 
> no?
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>>
>> 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
>>>
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