On Thursday, July 3, 2014 3:59:45 AM UTC-7, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote: > > Dear Sage developers, > > I recently noticed some preliminary work in src/setup.py toward > compiling the Sage library in place, instead of putting the produced > .so and copies of the .py files in src/build. > > Compiling in place means saving 15s of `sage -b` each time I just > modify Python code, and I do that all the time; so we are speaking of > dozen of minutes per day. So I have been dreaming of it for > years. Besides, it would also remove one of the regular source of > confusions for our new contributors. > > So I explored this further, and with very minimal further changes > (diff attached; I'll push a branch to trac once I have a good enough > internet connection), this apparently seems to work smoothly: I > haven't yet run all tests, but Sage starts, the documentation > compiles, etc. > > I can't wait until I can use this for real Sage development. But for > this, I basically need to get this feature into Sage. It would be > adventurous to enable this feature by default for all users at this > point. On the other hand, we should allow the adventurous of us to use > this extensively to chase out the bugs. > > What would be the right approach to make this feature configurable > when one compiles Sage for the first time? Using just an environment > variable set by the user is not good, since a given user might have > Sage installations configured differently. Some piece of information > must be stored somewhere at configuration time. > > Btw: do we have an open ticket for this? >
The ticket http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/12659 has the right title, anyway. -- John -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
