[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-12 Thread pang
> 4. The scipy dev team is currently having a thread about setting up a > snippet web database for scipy. It's just in the planning stages now; maybe > we could work together with them on a system we both could use. That was a long thread! Let me sum it up: Many people liked gist, but many others

[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-12 Thread pang
On Nov 10, 11:45 am, pang wrote: > I searched for "wikiinteract" on trac, and came up with patches with > no testing at all: 9737, 9729, 9728 and 9623. I couldn't find an > example that is nicely tested. On second thought, these are not trivial to split and test. Roughly every line consists of on

[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-10 Thread pang
>   This is what has happened already I think, and is why > progress has been so glacial with moving wiki interacts into the > library -- it's much > harder work than doing it in a way without any testing.   I searched for "wiki interact" on trac, and came up with patches with no testing at all: 9

[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-10 Thread pang
On 9 nov, 21:24, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Jason Grout > > > > Something being tedious is not a reason not to do it. But it may be a good reason not to recommend others to do it. Moving interacts from the wiki into the library is encouraged in the developing for Sage

[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-10 Thread pang
On 9 nov, 21:24, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Jason Grout > > > > Something being tedious is not a reason not to do it. But it may be a good reason not to recommend others to do it. Moving interacts from the wiki into the library is encouraged in the developing for Sage

[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/9/10 2:24 PM, William Stein wrote: Your two options are sort of orthogonal. Personally I think we should have: (a) a library of high quality stable tested working interacts that are included in the Sage library, (b) many interacts that are of varying quality that users post somewh

Re: [sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-09 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 11/9/10 1:14 PM, Pablo Angulo wrote: >> >>   I see there are some trac tickets for moving interacts from the wiki >> into the Sage library (at least 9623, ). However, none of them have unit >> tests. I though that automated checking of the c

[sage-devel] Re: interacts from the wiki in the library

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/9/10 1:14 PM, Pablo Angulo wrote: I see there are some trac tickets for moving interacts from the wiki into the Sage library (at least 9623, ). However, none of them have unit tests. I though that automated checking of the code was the main reason for moving the interacts into the librar