Hi, On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 07:58:07AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2022-03-22 at 03:44 -0700, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: > > > > Maybe it is time to make it a standard package in Sage. > > > > If so, please make it optional via a --disable-jupyterlab flag. (We > already have one for the standard notebook, --disable-notebook.) > > Hijack, sorry: with these flags starting to accumulate, now would be a > good time to go back and make sense of our standard vs optional > designation. In most packages, anything that has a --disable flag is > de-facto optional, but the default (enabled or disabled) can be set > per-package. In sage, we use "optional" to mean "optional and disabled > by default." Historically "standard" has meant "not optional and > therefore always enabled," but more and more these days it means > "optional but enabled by default."
"Standard" also means "be shipped within the source tarball" that is self-contained and does not require network connexion to be installed. Ciao, Thierry > I think anything that can be disabled (such as jupyterlab) should be > "optional," but that we should be able to mark optional packages as > enabled by default. So the "optional" distinction would just mean "give > it a ./configure flag." This would avoid the semantic confusion of > "standard" packages that can be disabled via hand-written --disable > flags. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/1f0514f25545ddd9bdd1d875746ebf7bbdb2af07.camel%40orlitzky.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/20220322134711.GA22346%40metelu.net.
