This could make it harder for Timothy Abbott to create debian versions. Based on some posted to debian-science, it appears that certain debian maintainers have a negative view of the GNU FDL, which some documentation is licensed under. Pushing FDL docs into a GPL's package might make the entire thing "non-free". I know this sounds idiotic, and maybe I'm wrong. But if I'm right this idea of combining these things could generate some extra work on Tim Abbott's end.
I hope I'm just plain wrong. If I'm wrong, +1, but -1 (for the FDL docs) if I'm right. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:47 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Sage-Devel, > > What do you think of (optionally) adding a doc/ subdirectory to each spkg? > When the spkg, say foo-1.2.3.spkg is installed, the directory > > SAGE_ROOT/doc/packages/foo > > would be a copy of that doc/ subdirectory. > > That's it. > > The idea is that this would be very helpful for people on airplanes, > etc., without > internet access, who really want to browse say the GMP docs or the Python > docs, but can't because they don't have internet access or the > tools to build the docs from source. Typically doc/ would contain html > only > or maybe html and pdf versions of *built* docs, hence adding no dependency > for building Sage. > > This would also provide an iterative way of getting rid of the > out of date extra_docs spkg from early 2007, which nobody > wants to update. > > Thoughts? > > To make this happen: (1) people have to think it is a good idea, and (2) a few > lines of code need to be added to local/bin/sage-spkg > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
