Re: [sage-devel] placeholders in __init__.py

2011-11-09 Thread Keshav Kini
Of course, you are right :) I more meant that maybe we can replace these messages with messages saying something like "Placeholder text as a workaround for Mercurial bug #1033 (fixed in 2008)" to avoid people getting the idea (from browsing the Sage source code) that this is still an issue in 2

Re: [sage-devel] placeholders in __init__.py

2011-11-08 Thread Maarten Derickx
Well this question is sort of answered automatically if we start making all __init__.py as mentioned on that ticket, namely make them contain just: import all Personally I wouldn't mind the placeholders to remain there in the otherwise empty __init__.py files just so that developers still using

Re: [sage-devel] placeholders in __init__.py

2011-11-08 Thread Keshav Kini
Necrobump - can we get rid of these lines or are they still important? Is the fixed Mercurial bug I mentioned what necessitated these lines? I was reminded of this by ##11762 which touches the __init__ files. -Keshav Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net . -- To post to this group, se

Re: [sage-devel] placeholders in __init__.py

2011-06-17 Thread Keshav Kini
Seems like it was fixed in 2008: revision http://selenic.com/repo/hg/rev/9db24a36d182 fixing http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue1033 (?) -Keshav -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@g

Re: [sage-devel] placeholders in __init__.py

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Keshav Kini wrote: > I asked some guys in #mercurial and they said they'd never heard of > repository corruption from empty files or mercurial not being able to commit > empty files. What's the reason for these comments? Or are they just FUD? :) I believe patch is

[sage-devel] placeholders in __init__.py

2011-06-17 Thread Keshav Kini
What's up with these comments? 11870 Sat Mar 28 16:10:58 2009 -0700 sage/algebras/quatalg/__init__.py: # quaternion algebra init file 14468 Sun Apr 25 12:04:13 2010 +0200 sage/coding/source_coding/__init__.py: # Just a comment so that __init__.py is not an empty file. 9029 Sun Mar 23 19:08:49 20