#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: ???
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Comment (by ncohen):
> Because installing packages with dependencies is better than installing
packages without dependencies. The old command still works, we are just
documenting the high-level interface instead of the low-level command.
So why don't you just change the behaviour of the current command 'sage
-i' so that it installs packages with dependencies? This would mean that
the user interface does not need to be changed.
> OK fine, I see your point. Would you agree with this ticket if we added
an option `sage -m` to run `make` and documentated that?
It would mean that the users can actually hope to run the command that we
give them, which is better. But there still isn't any reason that I see to
tell them to use `sage -m <pkgname>` instead of `sage -i <pkgname>`. Let
us adapt `sage -i`, which is currently used, to run what should be run.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18859#comment:31>
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