One way or another, we need to move forward on https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27270 --- if you have a better solution than there, implement it, if not, accept what it already provided.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:31 PM François Bissey <frp.bis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For those not reading the ticket. > Dima: > well, I don't see a point of not running ./configure. Perhaps it was > fashionable in Python world 10-15 years ago :-) > > My answer: > It is an interesting comment about configure. Unfortunately, as far as I know > running configure > for a python project is still not a done thing. It doesn't mesh with the > other elements of the > python toolchain. There is certainly room for some configurability option in > sage in regards to > the optional libraries. But autotool's configure is definitely not the python > way. Apart from > cypari I cannot think of another python package using configure. > > Let's be honest, a small configure script for sage's optional stuff and the > possibly unusual stuff > would be fine to run. The full configure script for the whole of the > distribution is inappropriate. > It all goes back, once again, to "sagelib" being treated special instead of > as a normal package. > So many things would have to click in place once you do that. Other > superbuild systems like the one > for paraview don't treat the main target in a special way like sage's does. > > — > François > > > On 16/07/2019, at 10:15 AM, François Bissey <frp.bis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 16/07/2019, at 10:11 AM, arojas <nqn1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> El martes, 16 de julio de 2019, 0:07:19 (UTC+2), François Bissey escribió: > >> > >> And here I don’t run configure at all in sage-on-gentoo. I only use python > >> standard > >> tools to build the sage library itself. I could fix it but this is an > >> annoyance I don’t need. > >> > >> François > >> > >> Neither do I - but with this patch there is no choice > > > > The choice is manual. You process the `env.py.in` manually in your > > preparation > > phase. Which is terrible of course but better than running configure. > > And since I am building multiple python having to run configure is really a > > pain > > in the ***. > > > > François > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/820236E3-2C69-460E-94F9-7140C1AFA911%40gmail.com. > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq2fzJ2u5SLcgNTZKnuCnEtYaY%2Bb%3DYgXCWpfF%2Byb7D3F7g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
