I think that the move to replace "sage/local/bin/sage-python" by "/usr/bin/env python3" contains a serious conceptual flaw. It is based on an assumption which is frequently false. The assumption is:
* Every user running sage will always have activated the same virtual environment which was used to build sage before running it. It is very common, even among users who are not developers, to have more than one version of python installed on one's system. It is not reasonable to expect a user with multiple versions of python to always remember to activate the python they used to build sage before running sage. I am quite certain that will fail to happen regularly, and will produce a large number of issues and messages sent to sage-support. A better design would be for sage to record the python installation which was used to build it, and for the sage script to ensure that the build python is first in the user's path when sage is started up. This would help, but is not a panacea. If someone deletes the python that they used to build sage, say because they just installed a newer version of python, they will destroy their sage. (Yes, this is more likely for macOS and conda users, and would not affect non-conda linux users if only you could guarantee that those users always use the python version that comes with their distro. But you cannot guarantee that. After all, anyone capable of building sage is also capable of building python, and it is not at all unreasonable to do that, for example because a user wants to be working with the current version of python.) Of course the set of issues above has a large intersection with the set of issues that led to sage having a python spkg in the first place. It would be wise to address them before removing the python spkg. On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM Jan Groenewald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > https://github.com/pipedream/sage/tree/develop/pkgs/sagemath-environment > It provides a small, fundamental subset of the modules of the Sage library > ("sagelib", sagemath-standard), providing the connection to the system and > software environment. It also includes the sage script for launching the > Sage REPL and accessing various developer tools (see sage --help). > > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/40554 > > Regards, > Jan > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 18:08, Marc Culler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The sagemath_environment package is a dependency of sagemath_bliss, >> sagemath_categories, sagemath_coxeter3, sagemath_meataxe, sagemath_objects, >> sagemath_repl, sagemath_sirocco, and sagemath_tdlib. >> >> I am not the person to ask about why that is the case. But I am >> surprised to learn that none of those packages get tested in a release >> candidate. >> >> - Marc >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM Dima Pasechnik <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> what are the uses of the sagemath-environment spkg? why is it needed for >>> anything? >>> >>> >>> >>> On August 8, 2025 10:19:01 AM CDT, Jan Groenewald < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Indeed >>>> >>>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage/commit/c4f7b06a43c72f09df743772ff8f9ff00dcbf97b#commitcomment-163324918 >>>> >>>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 16:22, G. M.-S. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> This file was there on SageMath 10.7.beta9, but no more on SageMath >>>>> 10.7.rc0. >>>>> >>>>> I can confirm that >>>>> *% ./configure --enable-sagemath-environment* >>>>> *% make* >>>>> fails with >>>>> >>>>> * [sagemath_environment-10.7.rc1] [spkg-install] error: [Errno 2] >>>>> No such file or directory: 'bin/sage-python'* >>>>> >>>>> Guillermo >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 15:08, Marc Culler <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The file sage/src/bin/sage-python seems to have disappeared in >>>>>> 10.7.rc1. This breaks the installation of the sage-environment package, >>>>>> among other things. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Marc >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 6:17:49 PM UTC-5 Volker Braun wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> As always, you can get the latest beta version from the "develop" >>>>>>> git branch. 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