Anyhow, I am for removal these docs from Sage proper,
(and making sagenb optional)
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 9:09 AM Frédéric Chapoton <fchapot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is the alternative : what would need to be done to fix the same problem 
> in another way.
>
> Le mercredi 10 octobre 2018 10:08:00 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, 08:16 Frédéric Chapoton, <fchap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree with and support strongly this proposal of removal of sagenb doc, 
>>> which is a step towards having "make" (and not only "make build") being 
>>> working with python3.
>>>
>>> The alternative would require a lot of work on sagenb itself :
>>>
>>> * merge the deprecation pull request there
>>> * release a new sagenb
>>> * make a ticket for upgrading the sagenb in sage
>>> * and then the doc may still be broken as sagenb is not 100% 
>>> python3-compatible (some issues with email remains)
>>
>>
>> I believe this is independent of removal of sagenb docs from Sage proper, no?
>>>
>>>
>>> Frédéric
>>>
>>>
>>> Le mercredi 10 octobre 2018 07:27:59 UTC+2, John H Palmieri a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> At https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25382, it is being proposed to remove 
>>>> the documentation for the legacy Sage notebook, a.k.a. sagenb, from the 
>>>> reference manual. Some reasons for this:
>>>>
>>>> - sagenb does not work with Python 3, nor does its documentation, so if we 
>>>> want the docs to build with Python 3, we need to delete it.
>>>> - Indeed, sagenb is not really being developed, as far as I can tell. 
>>>> Maintained to some extent, but not developed. Please correct me if this is 
>>>> incorrect.
>>>> - Some distributions remove this from the reference manual already (as far 
>>>> as I understand).
>>>> - The reference manual should be for Sage proper, not for its components. 
>>>> The reference manual doesn't include documentation for IPython or the 
>>>> Jupyter notebook. It does include links to them, and the proposal would be 
>>>> to give as good a link as possible to sagenb.
>>>>
>>>> Some reasons against this:
>>>>
>>>> - sagenb used to be part of Sage, so its role is different from other 
>>>> components like IPython, etc.
>>>>
>>>> By the way, it is straightforward to remove the sagenb documentation 
>>>> completely. It is more complicated and kind of ugly, but possible, to 
>>>> include the docs in the reference manual conditionally on whether Sage is 
>>>> built with Python 2 or Python 3. This is discussed on the ticket.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John
>>>>
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