I noticed in trying this out that if a package is already installed,
sage -c "install_package('package_name')"
raises a ValueError, which is definitely not the behavior I'd like.
Is there a reason it does that? Perhaps simply printing that
announcement would be sufficient?
-Marshall
On Nov 13, 4:30 pm, mhampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I have changed the spkg-install to use your solution. I have not
> tested it yet though, since I am unsure how to un-install those
> packages.
>
> -Marshall
>
> On Nov 13, 3:46 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Regarding: "so I attempt to install them with "sage -i" in the
> > spkg-install script. The bad thing is I hard-code the package
> > numbers, so that will break if they are updated."
>
> > Don't do that. Instead do this:
>
> > sage -c "install_package('package_name')"
>
> > without the version number. The "install_package" command in the Sage
> > library automatically determined the most recent version of a package.
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