On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 09:57 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> If not, I'm proposing we,
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> 1. Replace all direct uses of SAGE_TMP in library/doctest code with
> python's tempfile module.
> 2. Drop SAGE_TMP from tmp_filename() and tmp_dir(); this will revert
> to whatever director
> On 14/02/2022, at 03:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
> If not, I'm proposing we,
>
> 1. Replace all direct uses of SAGE_TMP in library/doctest code with
> python's tempfile module.
> 2. Drop SAGE_TMP from tmp_filename() and tmp_dir(); this will revert
> to whatever directory the OS
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 6:57 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> tl;dr I think we should forego SAGE_TMP and use whatever the system's
> temporary location is.
+1.
I'm pretty sure I "created" this SAGE_TMP thing in the first place,
and that my reasons were:
a. ignorance about the built in Python sol
tl;dr I think we should forego SAGE_TMP and use whatever the system's
temporary location is.
The first-order benefits of that are,
1. No need to maintain SAGE_TMP code ourselves.
2. The system temporary location is often optimized for temporary
access (e.g. is mounted in RAM), and is a
