On Mar 16, 1:32 am, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 1:00 am, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 15, 2012 2:28:02 PM UTC-7, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote:
>
> > >         Dear Sage doc compilation fans,
>
> > > Currently, "make doc" calls "sage -docbuild" with the option
> > > --no-pdf-links. I don't have an opinion about this specific option,
> > > but a very anoying consequence is that if you do a "make" and later a
> > > "sage -docbuild", then all the doc is recompiled (GASP!). And
> > > reciprocally.
>
> > > Is there a very good reason to use different options for "make doc"
> > > and "sage -docbuild"? Otherwise, I vote for having "make doc" just
> > > call "sage -docbuild". And I let the expert decide whether they want
> > > to throw "--no-pdf-links" in those default options or not.
>
> > > I volunteer for opening a ticket and implementing it: this will very
> > > soon save me time!
>
> > Sounds good to me. I can't figure out when it was introduced, so i don't
> > know why it was introduced, either. Anyone else know?
>
> A quick search on sage-release reveals #10811: "by default build HTML
> doc without PDF links" [1]
>
> IIRC there's repeatedly been discussion about this (on sage-release);
> the ticket only refers to the following short sage-devel thread:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/04c3d3...
>
> (So there's a reason we do use '--no-pdf-links'... ;-) )
>
> -leif
>
> [1]http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10811

P.S.: Perhaps the opportunity to introduce yet another Sage
environment variable; to be set in ~/.sagerc of course!


-leif

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