Hi, I've decided to not worry about this sad loss of functionality. Instead, for SageMathCloud at least, I'm just going to write a new "bdist" that will start over by doing (1) tar'ing up a clean Sage build. I may then add (2) reducing the size a little, if there is anything obvious, which doesn't break developing Sage. Nobody says you have to make a tarball of sage using bdist.
William On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:24 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Monday, 25 May 2015 20:17:49 UTC+1, William wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just curious -- is this intentional? >>> >>> 1. Build sage. >>> 2. Type "./sage -bdist ..." >>> 3. Extract the resulting tarball elsewhere >>> 4. Type "make" inside the extracted directory. BOOM! Total disaster. >> >> >> Has it ever worked? > > Yes, because the first version of "sage -bdist" was a 1-liner that > just tar'd up the exact installation. Then we kept removing things to > save disk space... > > My unusual, but I think a very important, basic design principle with > sage binaries was that it was *super important* that one could do > development with them. The idea is that a person would play with Sage > (as a user), then with minimal effort switch to doing some development > and contributing. This has clearly been completely lost in the > current binaries. It's also been lost in SageMathCloud -- but I hope > to get it back there (e.g., there could be a link the output of a > docstring or source code of a function in a worksheet, which would > setup a dev environment, and get you going editing that very > function...) > >> IMHO nothing beyond 'sage -b' worked in this case... >> >> >>> >>> It starts by trying to download tarballs from the internet, etc... >>> >> >> this is certainly worse than it was. >> >>> >>> -- William >>> >>> -- >>> William (http://wstein.org) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
