#9967: Allow concurrent running/testing of multiple sage branches
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   Reporter:  robertwb                 |       Owner:  ddrake    
       Type:  defect                   |      Status:  needs_work
   Priority:  major                    |   Milestone:  sage-4.6  
  Component:  doctest                  |    Keywords:            
     Author:  Robert Bradshaw          |    Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:  Dan Drake, John Cremona  |      Merged:            
Work_issues:                           |  
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Changes (by ddrake):

  * status:  needs_review => needs_work


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:21 robertwb]:
 > >Maybe another way to say this: I want at least one of these statements
 to be true: * "a running session / set of doctests / etc will never get
 confused if the symlink gets switched around"
 > This should be true. On starting sage, SAGE_BRANCH gets set right away
 if it wasn't set before, so you shouldn't confuse a running/testing sage
 by swapping the symlink out from under it. (All sub-proceses will inherit
 the environment variable.)

 Hmmm, I'm not sure this is true. Here's what I did:

 * switch to branch "bar" with "sage -b".
 * start some doctests in branch foo: {{{env SAGE_BRANCH=foo ./sage -tp 8
 devel/sage-foo/sage/combinat}}}
 * do {{{rm -fr devel/sage-bar}}}

 The doctests should continue running and not be effected by the bar branch
 being deleted...but they immediately start failing:

 {{{
 sage -t  devel/sage-foo/sage/combinat/q_analogues.py
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/drake/.sage//tmp/q_analogues.py", line 2, in <module>
     from sage.all_cmdline import *;
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/all_cmdline.py", line 14, in <module>
     from sage.all import *
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/all.py", line 83, in <module>
     from sage.modular.all    import *
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/modular/all.py", line 9, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/modular/abvar/all.py", line 7, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/modular/abvar/constructor.py", line 22, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/modular/abvar/abvar_newform.py", line 26, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/modular/abvar/abvar.py", line 44, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/groups/all.py", line 8, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/groups/perm_gps/all.py", line 16, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/groups/perm_gps/cubegroup.py", line 110, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/plot/all.py", line 1, in <module>
   File "/home/drake/s/sage-4.6.alpha3/local/lib/python/site-
 packages/sage/plot/plot.py", line 4157, in <module>
 ImportError: No module named disk
 }}}

 and various other ImportErrors. So something is following local/lib/python
 /site-packages/sage and not going directly to the branch given by
 SAGE_BRANCH.

 > Is there anything else that needs work on this?

 We're getting there. Sorry for being so picky!

 One thing I see: {{{sage-sdist}}} uses {{{SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage}}} --
 it follows the symlink and packages up the default branch. That's fine,
 but that script calls {{{sage-make_devel_packages}}}, which uses
 {{{SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage-main}}}. This could cause some serious confusion!
 (Then again, setting {{{SAGE_BRANCH}}} won't affect this, and we've gone
 through who-knows-how-many releases with the scripts like this...so
 perhaps we can ignore that issue here.)

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9967#comment:22>
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