Hi, My one remark for this thread is that it is relatively easy to make something pip installable. For example, somebody recently complained that pygsl was only available via downloading files from sourceforce, so I (very) easily made
https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=pygsl&version=2.1.1 by reading the bottom of: https://python-packaging.readthedocs.org/en/latest/minimal.html Now people can do "pip install pygsl". William On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Specifically, Jeroen says that `sage -i blah` is more user-friendly, as > opposed to `sage --pip install blah`. > I argue that this is not true, e.g. as `sage -i` is not something that can > be reverted, whereas `sage --pip` can. > > I could also say that `sage -i blah` on packages which are behind the scene > are installed by doing `sage --pip blah` > is an example of misleading the user into thinking that Sage treats `blah` > in some special way, something that a commercial > system would gladly do, but an open-source system should avoid as a plague. > > > On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 9:46:18 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> there is a discussion on http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20472 >> along these lines - PyX is an old-style optional package, apparently not` >> required by anything in Sage. >> IMHO it should just be removed, as one can do 'sage --pip install PyX' >> just fine. >> Jeroen instead wants to add yet another new-style optional package... >> >> >> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 9:41:53 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 9:31:25 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2016-04-20 09:24, Volker Braun wrote: >>>> > I propose to delete them >>>> >>>> I disagree. It's not because some packages are broken, that they should >>>> all be removed. >>>> >>> IMHO everything that can be pip-installed can go (e.g. all b*.spkg are >>> pip-installable). >>> But the rest ought to be inspected. E.g. >>> cunningham_tables-1.0.spkg >>> database_jones_numfield-v4.spkg >>> database_kohel-20060803.spkg >>> >>> ought to be kept. >>> >>> extra_docs are old docs for external programs and probably can be removed >>> (eg noone needs docs for python 2.5, I hope) >>> >>> ginv and gnuplotpy are not pip-installable. >>> OK, so this is how far I went, alphabetically. >>> >>> Should I go on and produce a complete list of things that can be removed? >>> (and things that must stay, and things that need to be inspected) >>> >>> Dima >>> > > -- > 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 sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- 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 sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
