On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? >
I am saying that it is very embarrassing if running "make test" corrupts SAGE_ROOT. It is so embarrassing that it is a blocker. Anyway, 7059 is now in 4.1.2.rc1. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
