[sage-devel] Re: distutils versus setuptools for the Sage library

2012-03-17 Thread Keshav Kini
Mike Hansen writes: > There is a patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12659 > which builds the Sage library in place just using distutils. Yup, I'm subscribed to the ticket :) I just found out about distutils2 and thought I'd mention it here. -Keshav Join us in #sagemath on i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: distutils versus setuptools for the Sage library

2012-03-17 Thread Mike Hansen
There is a patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12659 which builds the Sage library in place just using distutils. --Mike On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: > Hmm. What is this? http://stackoverflow.com/a/6522905 Maybe it's worth > looking into using this new thin

[sage-devel] Re: distutils versus setuptools for the Sage library

2012-03-17 Thread Keshav Kini
Hmm. What is this? http://stackoverflow.com/a/6522905 Maybe it's worth looking into using this new thing? -Keshav Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+u

[sage-devel] Re: distutils versus setuptools for the Sage library (was Re: Segregating development from production)

2012-03-11 Thread kcrisman
> We should.  The only reason we don't is because when I set things up > in 2004 (?) I think setuptools "python setup.py develop" either didn't > exist, or I had never heard of it.   What *should* happen is that we > use setuptools instead of distutils, and the Sage library would live > 100% and o

[sage-devel] Re: distutils versus setuptools for the Sage library

2012-03-11 Thread Keshav Kini
"Nicolas M. Thiery" writes: > Besides, this would solve the problem of unrelevant files not being > cleared up from the build directory when applying / unapplying patches > which create new files. I have just been hit by this, and this > confused Sphinx, and it was a pain to fix. I was just about

[sage-devel] Re: distutils versus setuptools for the Sage library

2012-03-10 Thread Keshav Kini
William Stein writes: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Keshav Kini wrote: >> Jeroen Demeyer writes: >>> On 2012-03-09 15:48, Keshav Kini wrote: I'm probably missing something obvious, but why do you need a repository in order to apply a patch to files? Doesn't `patch` work fine? >>>