Hi,

I wrote much of sagenb and am why sagenb is currently not optional.
I'm fine with removing it from sage and/or making it optional.

William
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:43 AM Timo Kaufmann <eisfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm also in favor. Besides being more complicated, I think doing something 
> different here for python2 and python3 would be a bad idea.
>
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2018 07:27:59 UTC+2 schrieb John H Palmieri:
>>
>> 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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