> I welcome the work on the Conda port because it will allow just that in the medium term. You could replace the whole sage packaging with Conda and a few scripts to set things up. Once you do that sage.misc.package should die (and please do not replace it by calls to Conda).
FYI, I have a branch here, https://github.com/isuruf/sage/commits/conda2 that installs dependencies using conda if it exists and otherwise uses spkg-install. What it does is it'll install the dependencies using conda if it finds a file named conda-pkg-name in `build/pkgs/<pkg>/`. This is a hack, and it'll take a lot of work to replace the sage package manager with conda. On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Francois Bissey < francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > > On 5/04/2017, at 11:25, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 4:01:50 PM UTC-7, François wrote: > > > > With the current system you could install and then remove > > some essential files manually and the doctesting framework > > would still try to use it. It is installed according to the > > packaging system after all. runtime testing would have a better > > chance to avoid broken packages. > > > > Hm, I don't see that as an advantage. A broken package shouldn't be just > avoided, it should be reported, so that it can be repaired or uninstalled. > Just silently avoiding broken functionality makes it harder to diagnose. > > > > Ha, I was thinking of a different kind of broken. I was thinking > of user mistake, you are thinking of systemic problems. > > I guess the doctesting framework could output a list of software > not tested because it thinks it is absent or not working. > A discrepancy could be spotted but that is not as direct, I agree. > > François > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
