I have been testing new versions of Simon King's p-group cohomology package. The current version doesn't work with Python 3, and he has been working (#28414) to fix this. My workflow:
1. check out his git branch 2. run ./sage -f -c p_group_cohomology 3. report any issues 4. check out develop branch Here is the problem: if step 2 works (which it has been recently), then `build/make/Makefile` gets modified, adding p_group_cohomology to the list of installed packages. When I switch back to the develop branch, then (since I am using a Python 3 build of Sage), Sage doesn't build any more, because it tries to build the broken version of the p_group_cohomology package. So then I do - "make p_group_cohomology-clean" but this does not change `build/make/Makefile` and so it does not fix the problem. I can either edit the Makefile by hand or rerun ./configure. So here are some questions: - Is "sage -i PKG" or "sage -f PKG" the preferred way to install an optional package? That's what our Developer's Guide says. Or should I be using "make PKG", which does not modify "build/make/Makefile"? - Assuming I should keep using "sage -f PKG", should there be an analogous command which uninstalls and then rebuilds the Makefile? Or should "make PKG-clean" itself rebuild the Makefile? -- John -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/8580c565-d127-4b91-ac16-ffffc8ab7514%40googlegroups.com.
