William Stein wrote: > 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.
Is there something special about 4.1.2 in this regard, or are you saying that this is a good thing to get into the next release in general? Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
