Meta-ticket: Review of development tools in Sage vs. mainstream Python tools

[mkoeppe]

(From https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/Q61rOkZ303M/onJdv_-lAQAJ:)

This meta-ticket reviews development tools that are provided by sagelib or by Sage command-line scripts as part of in Sage:

• Check whether they still work correctly
• Check whether equivalent tools are provided by mainstream Python tools (in particular IPython / Jupyter); add findings/recommendations to the documentation
• Find related existing Trac tickets
• What should be removed; what should be contributed to existing mainstream Python packages; what should be split out as separate Python packages.

Development tools:

• search_src (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/Q61rOkZ303M/onJdv_-lAQAJ)
• scripts in src/bin/
• options of src/bin/sage
• explain_pickle (see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/94kP0_Xbx04/x7St89zwCgAJ)
• import_statements (in sage.misc.dev_tools)

See also:

• Meta-ticket: Adopt mainstream Python testing/linting infrastructure: tox, pytest, ..., describe in Developer's Guide #28936 Meta-ticket: Adopt mainstream Python testing/linting infrastructure, describe in Developer's Guide
• upgrade to ipython 7 #28197 upgrade to ipython 7

Depends on #28197

CC: @jhpalmieri @orlitzky @dimpase @roed314 @kcrisman @JohnCremona @seblabbe @nbruin @mwageringel @soehms @embray

Component: user interface

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29670

[mkoeppe]

Dependencies: #28197

[mkoeppe]

comment:8

Moving to 9.4, as 9.3 has been released.