On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> I like "sage-src", since it is consistent with "sage-spkg", and so far >>>> everybody like "sage-spkg". >>>> It's consistent because "-src" creates the "src/" directory, just like >>>> "-spkg" creates the ".spkg" file. >>> >>> FWIW I at first found it slightly difficult to remember whether to use >>> sage-pkg or sage-spkg. >>> >> >> Why? Don't you think "sage-spkg" is more logical, since the file it >> creates ends in ".spkg"? > > Hang on, now you're confusing me. (Apparently I still find it difficult > to remember the difference between sage-pkg and sage-spkg). > > `sage-pkg` creates .spkg files. `sage-spkg` installs .spkg files. Am I > wrong? I seem to be correct, at least looking at the contents of > $SAGE_LOCAL/bin/sage-pkg and $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/bin/sage-spkg . > > Now if we're talking about command line arguments, it seems like both > `sage -[-]spkg` and `sage -[-]pkg` are actually calling > `$SAGE_LOCAL/bin/sage-pkg`. > > That's kind of confusing.
It is indeed. I was in fact confused. Above, I was talking about the sage-dist script that is *inside* some spkg's. > > -Keshav > > ---- > Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! > > -- > 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
