On Saturday, December 17, 2011 3:00:15 PM UTC-8, Burcin Erocal wrote:
>
> Hi Maarten,
>
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:28:47 -0800 (PST)
> Maarten Derickx <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I was merging my new ipython spkg wich needed review for some time
> > already at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11235 but now
> > needs work because in the time that it needed review some people 
> > made http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11460 and upgraded
> > ipython. Now I noticed that in the new spkg they use patch in the
> > spkg-install file (it was not in the old spkg-install) but in the
> > developer guide they there is explicitly stated to not use 
> > it:
> > 
> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/patching_spkgs.html#use-cp-for-patching
> .
> > But there is no explanation why one should not do that, so can
> > someone tell me why? Because using patch seems much more logical to
> > me.
>
> This used to be the case to avoid a dependency on the patch tool. At
> some point, patch was included in Sage (see sage-devel archives). I
> guess no one updated the documentation since then.
>
> Can you open a ticket for the documentation update if there isn't
> already one?
>

See <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9419>.  If you want to 
review it, that would be great.

-- 
John

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