On Jul 26, 5:08 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, July 26, 2010, Robert Miller <r...@rlmiller.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:21 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sdist should 100% work from a binary. That it doesn't now is a bug. > >> This used to work - I remember doing sage releases myself starting > >> from a binary. > > > I thought binaries only included place holders for the > > That is true - you certainly would have to copy real spkg's into > spkg/standard.
So "sage -sdist" should check to see if SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard/ atlas... is above a certain size, and if not, print a warning about copying real spkg's and/or refuse to run? Someone who likes shell scripts should be able to modify sage-sdist so it does this. -- 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
