On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Adam Webb <maxthemo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 19, 5:05 am, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sage uses non-standard command-line options (e.g., -notebook rather >> than --notebook). I propose that we switch to standard ones. Here are >> two reasons: >> >> 1. They're standard, and standards are good. People used to Unix-type >> systems will expect our options to work this way. I think if we >> decide to continue not using the standard format, we should have a >> good reason. >> >> 2. If we use standard command-line options, we can use an existing >> command-line parser, like Python's optparse, instead of having our own >> home-grown version (in SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-sage). A standard >> Python library package is likely to be more robust than something home- >> grown. For example, we can solve trac ticket #21 (and the related >> ticket #180) this way. For another example, note that "sage -merge" >> works but "sage --merge" doesn't; this sort of thing can be fixed on a >> case-by-case basis, but it's harder to even introduce such >> inconsistencies with optparse. >> > > I think it is a great idea. > >> >> - what is "sage -darcs" supposed to do? I don't know what "darcs" is, >> and I don't see any packages which seem relevant. >> > > I assume this refers to the distributed source code management. > (http://darcs.net/) Perhaps someone was thinking of it as an > alternative to mercurial. It does have an interesting theory of > patches.
It was included in Sage and we used it for everything from about Feb 2006 to sometime in 2007. In 2006, Mercurial wasn't mature enough. >> - what about "sage -axiom"? What package installs axiom? Fricas? >> > > This is leftover from when fricas used to use the name axiom as a > synonym. This is no longer the case. If axiom is installed globally it > will be used. There is no spkg for it but there are optional tests > that assume the presence of axiom. > > Adam > >> For any of these, we have several choices: (1) delete them, (2) keep >> them, (3) keep them but don't document them (don't list them when you >> type "sage --advanced"), (4) ?? >> >> -- >> John > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
