#9756: Document SAGE_TUNE_pari in the Sage Installation Guide
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: mvngu
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: documentation | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
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Comment(by leif):
Replying to [comment:8 drkirkby]:
> Replying to [comment:7 leif]:
> > I still prefer following the convention that [exported] environment
variables should be all uppercase (i.e. {{{SAGE_TUNE_PARI}}}), and am
currently supporting that (in addition) in a new PARI 2.4.3.svn-12577.p5
spkg.
>
> I think it was Peter Jeremey that proposed the lower case, and showed
some code how one could get it inside an arbitrary package (say ATLAS)
from the package name.
Ever heard of {{{tr}}}? ;-)
> I don't have a big problem with upper or lower case, though I think
there's an argument for making the global ones that affect every package
upper case, and appending lower case for those that only affect a single
package.
Doesn't make sense to me (unless we accept ''both'' lower as well as
uppercase, which IMHO isn't a good idea either).
> But it's hardly a big deal either way.
It isn't, but we shouldn't produce too much confusion, neither to the
developers nor to the users.
Keeping it all uppercase is in my opinion the (conformant and) least
annoying choice.
Otherwise we'd also run into problems with "PARI" vs. "pari", "NTL" vs.
"ntl", "!PolyBoRi" vs. "POLYBORI" vs. "polybori" etc. I think.
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