#7617: include sagetex as a standard spkg
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Reporter: was | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3
Component: packages | Keywords:
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Upstream: N/A | Reviewer:
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Comment(by ddrake):
Replying to [comment:6 was]:
> Why not make all this config stuff automatic?
>
> "For Linux/Unix users, do
> {{{
> cp -r $SAGE_ROOT/local/share/texmf/ $HOME/texmf/
> }}}
> For OS X users with MacTeX:
> {{{
> cp -r $SAGE_ROOT/local/share/texmf/ $HOME/Library/texmf/
> }}}
> After you've copied over the necessary files, you'll need to update
> TeX's database so that it can find them. Run "{{{texhash $HOME/texmf}}}"
> (replace the texmf directory as appropriate) to do this."
One problem that I see is that there are different TeX distributions, and
not all of them may automatically look in home directories for a texmf/
tree. Some users may also not want the default installation of Sage (which
will now install SageTeX) to create those directories and files in their
$HOME.
> I don't think the above is as easy as it could be... I like to make
things really easy, e.g., setting up a twisted webserver to server the
Sage notebook app is {{{notebook()}}}.
I agree, it's not very simple, but we are now interacting not only with
Sage (which is a large software system) but with TeX, another large -- and
quite different -- software system. And unlike Sage, a TeX installation is
supposed to be very stable and work the same way for a long, long time --
so I'm guessing we could run into very old systems.
I'll look and see if there's a reasonably effective way to autodetect if
$HOME/texmf will get picked up by TeX. I also like the idea of putting
some basic installation instructions and pointers to the rest of the
documentation into the tutorial.
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