As far as the mwrank directory is concerned, it could easily be got rid of. mwrank (and eclib generally) has a habit of writing to a file called PRIMES so as to keep large and/or interesting primes from one run to the next. I could easily recode eclib so that it never creates a file, only uses one if it exists
In fact, looking at the code as it now is (in eclib/src/procs/marith.cc), the line which outputs to this file is commented out already, so it would probably be fine to delete the directory already. John On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:54 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Robert Bradshaw > <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:16 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Robert Bradshaw >>> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >>>> I've been looking at merging extcode into the main repository, and was >>>> thinking some cleanup is in order. See >>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/extcode for a current listing of contents. >>>> IIRC, the notebook, images, and jsmath directories are completely >>>> redundant now, right? >>> >>> Yes, definitely. (Unless there is a bizarre bug.) That information >>> is all in the sagenb spkg. >>> >>>> Does anyone know what sagebuild is? >>> >>> It is something gfurnish created, which is no longer relevant, since I >>> re-implemented from scratch (using multiprocessing) the thing he had >>> implemented. Doing "hg log sageenv.py" in the sagebuild directory >>> confirms this. >>> >>>> They look >>>> years old, see also http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3399 . >>>> Also, is there any need for the (mostly empty) system and system/user >>>> directories? >>> >>> I see no such directories: >>> >>> deep:extcode wstein$ ls >>> MuPAD images mathematica octave scilab >>> QEPCAD javascript matlab pari singular >>> dist kash maxima pickle_jar sobj >>> gap macaulay2 mirror sage spkg-debian >>> genus2reduction magma mwrank sage-push spkg-dist >>> gnuplot maple notebook sagebuild spkg-install >> >> I mean mathematica and mathematica/user, etc. > > They have a purpose, which is the same as the purpose for having > magma, pari, etc., directories. It's just that so far nobody has ever > used them. I didn't know that they wouldn't get used when I made > them. I thought I would be including all kinds of interesting > mathematica code in Sage (in that extcode/mathematica directory), > which would only work if mathematica is installed. It turns out that > didn't happen. > > -- William > > -- > 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 > -- 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
