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


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