#18859: Update docs to use "make pkgname" instead of "./sage -i pkgname"
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.9
Component: documentation | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer | Reviewers: Ralf Stephan
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
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Changes (by ncohen):
* status: needs_info => needs_work
Comment:
> It's not impossible, it's just a needless complication.
>
> Analogy: you don't want `gcc` to keep track of dependencies, that's why
you use `make`: usually, `make` runs `gcc` and not the other way around.
Similarly, `make` should run `./sage -i` and not the other way around.
My problem is not whether you should have a way to track dependencies and
a way to not track them. My problem is that we have been using and
advertising 'sage -i' for years. It appears in our doc, on some people's
web page, and we can expect users to know how to run it (those who know
how to open a console).
We don't have one year deprecations policies to change the behaviour of
some lost Sage function so that you can change 'sage -i' to 'make' without
warning, especially when (see [comment:12]) we cannot expect all users to
know what 'make' is, nor to know where 'SAGE_ROOT' is.
As it seems that there is no technical problem in changing the user
interface, I set this ticket back to `needs_work`.
Nathann
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