On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:24 AM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Yes. It should do that for all the spkg's though. This would be good to do in Python, e.g., sage-sdist can call another little python script that exits with a nonzero status code on error. > > 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 > -- William Stein 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
