[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-27 Thread leif
On 27 Mai, 16:59, kcrisman wrote: > On May 27, 10:32 am, leif wrote: > > > > > On 27 Mai, 02:34, William Stein wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > >> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still > > > >> > don't/can't use them.  (Mayb

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-27 Thread kcrisman
On May 27, 10:32 am, leif wrote: > On 27 Mai, 02:34, William Stein wrote: > > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > >> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still > > >> > don't/can't use them.  (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when > > >>

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-27 Thread leif
On 27 Mai, 02:34, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > >> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still > >> > don't/can't use them.  (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when > >> > they visit in June!). > Go for it!  I wrote h

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-27 Thread kcrisman
On May 26, 8:34 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > >> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still > >> > don't/can't use them.  (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when > >> > they visit in June!). > > >> Sure. For a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still >> > don't/can't use them.  (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when >> > they visit in June!). >> >> Sure. For a single patch, do >> >> hg qnew -f some_name # create

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread kcrisman
> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still > > don't/can't use them.  (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when > > they visit in June!). > > Sure. For a single patch, do > > hg qnew -f some_name # create a changeset > hg qref -e # refresh the patch, including th

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 23:51, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Right now, of course, you could point to the listing given in the   > > release notes.  However, often the trac ticket titles are (1) not   > > very descriptive, (2) often poorly reflect what is actuall

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/26/10 5:33 AM, William Stein wrote: Your arguments would also suggest that any of the Sage repositories should have their logs in a text file as well. Should the main Sage Python library!? Should the local/bin/ repository have a text fi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 11:55 AM, kcrisman wrote: way around that. Personally, I would say anyone not using queues is at a disadvantage, True. and they're really easy to pick up (especially if Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still don't/can't use them. (Maybe R

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread kcrisman
> I Sage, there's no tab-completion for file names (and the syntax is > odd, and Sage takes too long to start up). True, but I'm often testing at the same time as I'm checking something in the (potential) patch or in the log. Then it becomes convenient. > (There's no "usage" tab-completion in ".

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/26/10 5:33 AM, William Stein wrote: Your arguments would also suggest that any of the Sage repositories should have their logs in a text file as well. Should the main Sage Python library!? Should the local/bin/ repository have a text file? You know, for certain things, this might not b

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/26/10 1:55 PM, kcrisman wrote: way around that. Personally, I would say anyone not using queues is at a disadvantage, True. and they're really easy to pick up (especially if Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still don't/can't use them. (Maybe Rob and Jas

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread leif
On 26 Mai, 20:55, kcrisman wrote: > Random remark: One reason why HG alone is much harder than in Sage is > that there is no tab completion of the various HG commands, no > interactive verbose help accessible as easily with a ?, etc.  That has > saved me in hg_sage many, many times. I Sage, there

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread kcrisman
> way around that. Personally, I would say anyone not using queues is at   > a disadvantage, True. > and they're really easy to pick up (especially if   Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still don't/can't use them. (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 26, 2010, at 2:06 AM, David Kirkby wrote: On 25 May 2010 20:58, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: SPKG.txt version === r-2.10.1.p0 (David Kirkby, February 16th 2010) === Are you really suggesting that the commit message should be this long? Ma

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread kcrisman
> > Our point is that the new blood you are looking for will have to come with a > > knowledge of mercurial if they want to know what's going on. > > I agree. That's too bad. Remember, this is a *math* project, not a computer project per se. Some of your developer base (maybe not ever a "main"

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:52 AM, François Bissey wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:30 AM, François Bissey >> >> wrote: >> >> On 25 May 2010 20:58, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> >> > On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> >> >> SPKG.txt version >> >> >> >> >> >> === r-2.10.1.p0 (David K

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread François Bissey
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:30 AM, François Bissey > > wrote: > >> On 25 May 2010 20:58, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> > On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> >> SPKG.txt version > >> >> > >> >> === r-2.10.1.p0 (David Kirkby, February 16th 2010) === > >> > >> > >> > >> >> Are you

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:30 AM, François Bissey wrote: >> On 25 May 2010 20:58, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> > On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> >> SPKG.txt version >> >> >> >> === r-2.10.1.p0 (David Kirkby, February 16th 2010) === >> >> >> >> >> Are you really suggesting that the c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread François Bissey
> On 25 May 2010 20:58, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> SPKG.txt version > >> > >> === r-2.10.1.p0 (David Kirkby, February 16th 2010) === > > > > >> Are you really suggesting that the commit message should be this > >> long? Maybe they should be!

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-26 Thread David Kirkby
On 25 May 2010 20:58, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> SPKG.txt version >> >> === r-2.10.1.p0 (David Kirkby, February 16th 2010) === >> Are you really suggesting that the commit message should be this >> long?  Maybe they should be! > > Yes, I've got no

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 25, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/25/10 3:07 PM, kcrisman wrote: There remains one additional problem. If we have been putting long information into SPKG.txt for a while with almost no information in the commit messages, getting rid of the SPKG.txt ones will leave a fai

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 25, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/25/10 2:56 PM, William A. Stein wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jason Grouts...@creativetrax.com> wrote: On 5/25/10 2:01 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, William Stein wrote: Having info about patches is

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 3:07 PM, kcrisman wrote: There remains one additional problem. If we have been putting long information into SPKG.txt for a while with almost no information in the commit messages, getting rid of the SPKG.txt ones will leave a fairly large piece of their history mysterious at bes

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Mike Hansen
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:56 PM, William A. Stein wrote: > Interesting.  If I remember correctly, you and I had a long discussion about > those patch files, in which I was totally against them, and you argued for > them.   I think they are there now mostly because of you.  I'm still against >

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 2:56 PM, William A. Stein wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/25/10 2:01 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, William Stein wrote: Having info about patches is a good idea. I'm definitely not convinced SPKG.txt is the right plac

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread kcrisman
> > And I reiterate that I recall somewhere a suggestion on sage-devel > > that commit messages should be one line long.  Does no one else > > remember that?  Or did it mean it should not have any carriage > > returns, but be as long as it wants (in which case this was not clear > > at all)? > > O

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 25, 2010, at 12:35 PM, kcrisman wrote: On May 25, 3:05 pm, William Stein wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, kcrisman wrote: changelog, where it will scroll off the bottom and be forgotten. I'd This is my main point, as well as for those who in the future will just be lear

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 2:52 PM, William A. Stein wrote: +1 to Robert's comments. Already, I don't ever make or use foo.patch files anymore because they are completely redundant and one more easily-forgotten step to make (they should be totally automated if they are required). Interesting I'm not s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread William A. Stein
On May 25, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/25/10 2:01 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On May 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, William Stein wrote: >> > > >>> Having info about patches is a good idea. I'm definitely not >>> convinced SPKG.txt is the right place for it. I would install prop

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread William A. Stein
On May 25, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/25/10 2:01 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On May 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, William Stein wrote: >> > > >>> Having info about patches is a good idea. I'm definitely not >>> convinced SPKG.txt is the right place for it. I would install prop

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread kcrisman
On May 25, 3:05 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >> changelog, where it will scroll off the bottom and be forgotten. I'd > > > This is my main point, as well as for those who in the future will > > just be learning hg and find going the right direct

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 2:01 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, William Stein wrote: Having info about patches is a good idea. I'm definitely not convinced SPKG.txt is the right place for it. I would install propose something *like* for every patch foo, having a file foo.wtf (or som

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> changelog, where it will scroll off the bottom and be forgotten. I'd > > This is my main point, as well as for those who in the future will > just be learning hg and find going the right directory etc. > difficult. sage -hg log |more ?? > > A

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, William Stein wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/25/10 12:41 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Hi all, I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog entr

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread kcrisman
> changelog, where it will scroll off the bottom and be forgotten. I'd   This is my main point, as well as for those who in the future will just be learning hg and find going the right directory etc. difficult. As for HISTORY.txt, I don't understand why that isn't updated, since http://www.sagema

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On May 25, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> On 5/25/10 12:41 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a >>> changelog entry in SPKG.txt , as specified by [

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 1:23 PM, kcrisman wrote: On May 25, 1:50 pm, William Stein wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Hi all, I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog entry in SPKG.txt , as specified by [1], Does anyone know why are we

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 25, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Jason Grout wrote: On 5/25/10 12:41 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Hi all, I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog entry in SPKG.txt , as specified by [1], Does anyone know why are we manually keeping a text changelog when the fi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > On May 25, 1:50 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw >> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> >> > I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog >> > entry in SPKG.txt , as specifie

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 25, 2010, at 11:23 AM, kcrisman wrote: On May 25, 1:50 pm, William Stein wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Hi all, I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog entry in SPKG.txt , as specified by [1], Does anyone know

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/25/10 12:41 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: Hi all, I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog entry in SPKG.txt , as specified by [1], Does anyone know why are we manually keeping a text changelog when the files under our control are already under revision contr

[sage-devel] Re: Changelogs in SPKG.txt

2010-05-25 Thread kcrisman
On May 25, 1:50 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw > > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I just had a new spkg (rightly) rejected because it didn't have a changelog > > entry in SPKG.txt , as specified by [1], Does anyone know why are we > > manually keeping a t