+1 to unconditional removal. Really its just sending confusing messages to users looking for help. If you are new to Sage in 2018 you should never start sagenb.
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 7:27:59 AM UTC+2, John H Palmieri wrote: > > 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.
