sage -ldist -- needs to be updated

[williamstein]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:06:42 -0700, Mark mfenner@gmail.com wrote:

Could someone provide a basic road map of what would need to be done to
separate the interfaces (i.e., Python code) from the batteries included
distribution? Aside from extracting sage- from
spkg/sage- and doing python setup.py install, that is ...

First, something that might be helpful is to try typing

"sage -ldist VER"

which ends up running

<SAGE_ROOT>/local/bin/sage-libdist

which is supposed to make a "stand alone" version of SAGE without dependencies.
I.e., a tarball that you can "python setup.py install" into a standard Python2.5
install, assuming you have all dependencies.

It is "slightly" behind, i.e,. I haven't used it in months, so it is not likely
to work. But it is a first step in the direction of what you want.

[...]

I just tried "sage -ldist" and it failed because it isn't aware of how
I reorganized where the custom ipython config files go; basically, it fails
in creating an ipython config for SAGE. But it gets close -- in particular,
if you run it you'll get a directory
<SAGE_ROOT>/dist/sage-....
that has a setup.py file in it.

I haven't kept it up only because the user base until now has not
actually requested it. I'll list that "sage -ldist" doesn't quite
work as a bug on the tracker, so I can fix it soon.

Component: packages: standard

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/141