Re: [sage-devel] Purpose of some of the files in .sage

2022-08-23 Thread John H Palmieri
Thank you, that helped. The files are created when doctesting src/sage/doctest/forker.py. I've opened https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/34416. On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 2:41:39 AM UTC-7 john.c...@gmail.com wrote: > Whenever a pexpect interface is created, there's an optional parameter to >

Re: [sage-devel] Purpose of some of the files in .sage

2022-08-23 Thread John Cremona
Whenever a pexpect interface is created, there's an optional parameter to say whether or not to make a log file. The default should always be not to do so. So we should look to see which ones may have the opposite default. It may be something left over from a debugging session which got committed b

Re: [sage-devel] Purpose of some of the files in .sage

2022-08-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, 01:11 John H Palmieri, wrote: > > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 4:02:05 PM UTC-7 dim...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2022, 23:47 John H Palmieri, wrote: >> >>> What is the purpose of >>> >>> - $HOME/.sage/gap >>> - $HOME/.sage/pexpect_logs >>> - $HOME/.sage/c

Re: [sage-devel] Purpose of some of the files in .sage

2022-08-22 Thread John H Palmieri
On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 4:02:05 PM UTC-7 dim...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2022, 23:47 John H Palmieri, wrote: > >> What is the purpose of >> >> - $HOME/.sage/gap >> - $HOME/.sage/pexpect_logs >> - $HOME/.sage/cache >> >> ? >> >> The first one currently takes 1.5GB on my machin

Re: [sage-devel] Purpose of some of the files in .sage

2022-08-22 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022, 23:47 John H Palmieri, wrote: > What is the purpose of > > - $HOME/.sage/gap > - $HOME/.sage/pexpect_logs > - $HOME/.sage/cache > > ? > > The first one currently takes 1.5GB on my machine, and it has a README.txt > file that says "It is OK to delete all these cache files. Th

[sage-devel] Purpose of some of the files in .sage

2022-08-22 Thread John H Palmieri
What is the purpose of - $HOME/.sage/gap - $HOME/.sage/pexpect_logs - $HOME/.sage/cache ? The first one currently takes 1.5GB on my machine, and it has a README.txt file that says "It is OK to delete all these cache files. They will be recreated as needed." So why do we keep them at all? The