On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:23 AM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Martin > Albrecht<m...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> is there any compelling technical reason why we are using all.py for module >> level initialisation instead of the Python standard __init__.py? >> >> Cheers, >> Martin > > No, there is no compelling technical reason. The actual reason is > that I mistakenly thought that __init__.py should be empty long long > ago. > It's simply a historical mistake that we use all.py instead of > __init__.py. I would welcome somebody fixing this, assuming I'm right > that this is just a mistake on my part.
In that case, the Developers' Guide needs to be adjusted accordingly. In particular, this section http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/coding_in_python.html#creating-a-new-directory -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
