> 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 only at SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage. Just to emphasize, the > Cython modules would then be built in place. > > Making this change would (1) avoid an enormous amount of confusion > when people type "foo??" and see the source location, which is not the > path to the file they should edit, and (2) reduce the use of disk > space by several hundred megabytes.
Wow, that would definitely make it be a lot easier to sometimes track down certain things. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
