On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > It's true that having Graphviz to plot our graphs would be very > interesting.... I'd like to spend some time on this, but I sent a lot > of patches to be reviewed already in the Graph section and I am not > sure it is a good idea to send even more for the moment ^^; > > There was a second question in my message, which made me doubt about > whether I should send it to sage-support or to sage-devel : > Is there any existing way to know which new features are included in > the optional packages and why we should install them ?? How could I > know it would be interesting for me to install option package XXXXX if > it appears nowhere in the tutorials, nowhere in the reference, and if > there is not even an accurate descriptions of all the available > optional spkg ? > > Can we really expect the users to grep their sage installation ( which > I should have tried anyway, thank you Jason ^^; ) to know the effect > that will be produced by the installation of a new package ? > > I tried to document it when possible for Linear Programming and CBC, > but if there is none at the moment, I think we should definitely find > a way to build an index of optional packages and their use !!!!
You used to be able to type sage -optional to get a list of all optional packages, but that seems to be broken now. Also, what I would do is implement the graphviz functions, and the error if graphviz is not present could suggest installing it. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
