On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, 18:38 Andrey Novoseltsev, <novos...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 27 September 2022 at 11:11:00 UTC-6 dim...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Basically, we should deprecate and remove tmp_dir() and tmp_filename()
>> from Sage.
>> Does Sagecell use them? It should not, Python3 has perfectly good
>> replacements...
>>
>
> The problems that surfaces so far that I believe these tools may not
> address on their own:
> 1) tmp directory is used for "too long" i.e. while Sage process is
> running,  which may be a problem if it gets automatically cleaned
> 2) tmp stuff is deleted "too fast" e.g. as soon as it was generated, while
> some interfaces may rely on access to generated content a bit after Sage is
> done with it, e.g. to show plots in a browser
>

this sounds like a bad design


> 3) default location may not work with our interfaces as well
>

dir= parameter in TemporaryDirectory etc
can be used to set a better location.
This should take care of 1) too.



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