On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:46 AM, John H Palmieri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Through tickets #6864 and #7059, Karl-Dieter Crisman and I have been
> trying to stamp out the practice in which doctests save files in the
> current working directory -- among other things, it's annoying to have
> your directory littered with files like "test.png", "zz.png", and
> "my_general_distribution_plot.png" after running doctests.  You can
> help: when you write a doctest which saves output to a file, make sure
> it is saved to the temporary directory SAGE_TMP. The patch at #7059
> adds information about this to the developer's guide.
>
>  John
>
>
> Links:
>
> <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6864>
> <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7059>

Thanks.  This is really important for sage-4.1.2, since I didn't want
to release something where doctest corrupts SAGE_ROOT.

William

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