#14243: Try not to pick up user versions of things like numpy, mpl
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Reporter: kcrisman | Owner:
Type: defect | GeorgSWeber
Priority: critical | Status: closed
Component: build | Milestone: sage-6.4
Keywords: | Resolution: fixed
Authors: John Palmieri | Merged in:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: Buck Evan
Branch: | Work issues:
e35ebe9bb554e4f00bcd0c4eabe91cb196997a1a | Commit:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by was):
Follow up. I think we absolutely must move to a model where we make it
easy for users to create and share packages of code that depend on Sage.
Our current spkg system is a complete failure in this regard, and has only
got worse with its tight integration into the Sage git repo. In
constrast, setuptools and pypi -- the official Python packaging framework
-- works very well, is heavily tested, and there's tons of documentation
and tutorials. Instead of making it much harder to use
pip/setuptools/pypi with Sage, which is what this trac ticket does, we
should be making it much easier.
There are about 6,000 user-created R packages in Rcran -- I've installed
many of these (ok, dozens requested by users), and they all install
perfectly. Sage could have hundreds or even thousands of packages on pip
right now. We could have an automated testing framework that downloads
them all and builds them, and runs their test suites (setuptools has
integrated test suite support). We could decide to include some of these
packages standard with Sage, and referee them. It's an epic mistake that
we aren't doing this with a passion right now. Let's not make it even
more difficult.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14243#comment:14>
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