Do not ship auto-generated files in the Sage library sources

[jdemeyer]

Even after #14700, there are still various auto-generated files which are shipped:

sage/libs/pari/gen.h
sage/modular/arithgroup/farey_symbol.h
sage/rings/real_mpfi.h
sage/symbolic/pynac.h

and lots of .rst files like

doc/en/reference/algebras/sage/algebras/free_algebra.rst

Component: distribution

Author: John Palmieri

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer

Merged: sage-5.11.beta2

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14739

[tscrim]

comment:1

Shouldn't the .rst files be included in the (compiled) distribution since they are the output for documentation and we don't want to make a user (re)build the documentation as a part of the installation?

[jhpalmieri]

Attachment: trac_14739-manifest.patch.gz

[jhpalmieri]

Author: John Palmieri

[jhpalmieri]

comment:2

Here's a patch. By the way, sage --sdist ... on OS X does not preserve the symlinks to conf.py in the subdirectories of doc/en/reference: it creates copies of the file instead of links. is that a bug in our code, or is it something in Python?

[jdemeyer]

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer

[jdemeyer]

comment:4

Replying to @tscrim:

Shouldn't the .rst files be included in the (compiled) distribution since they are the output for documentation and we don't want to make a user (re)build the documentation as a part of the installation?

This is about source distributions.

[jdemeyer]

comment:5

Replying to @jhpalmieri:

Is that a bug in our code, or is it something in Python?

I'm not sure, it might be because of distutils.

[tscrim]

comment:6

Replying to @jdemeyer:

This is about source distributions.

Ah okay, thanks.

[nexttime]

comment:7

Replying to @tscrim:

Shouldn't the .rst files be included in the (compiled) distribution since they are the output for documentation and we don't want to make a user (re)build the documentation as a part of the installation?

It would be nice to have a separate tarball with (only) the pre-built documentation though, but that's another thing.

[jdemeyer]

Merged: sage-5.11.beta2