#525: Get Pete Chvany's build notes into the SAGE docs.
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Reporter: was | Owner: mabshoff
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-3.1.3
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by mabshoff):
Replying to [comment:3 jhpalmieri]:
Hi John,
> Is this ticket still relevant? If so, can someone explain its purpose to
me? Who is the target audience for the attached document?
I don't think so.
> For example, the document says 'These instructions assume a basic level
of Unix command-line fluency.' But in this case, how much of this needs to
be explained?
>
> For another example, it seems like a bad idea (items 3 and 4) to delete
the old copy of sage, at least not until you're sure that the new one
doesn't break things (the way the notebook was somewhat broken for a few
releases). If we want instructions like this somewhere (in the
installation guide, I suppose), I would not include them as is...
They do suggest outright bad things like building Sage with sudo
privileges. It is much, much better to build Sage as a user, -bdist and
then move the result into a user accessible location. Another bad thing it
to give the sage script an absolute patch since these days the location of
a link is automatically resolved.
Consequently: closed as wontfix.
Cheers,
Michael
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