Add William's "personal souped up version of sage -bdist" to Sage

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

The buildbots are using a script (originally written by William and edited by me) to produce the binaries. It automatically builds a "Mac App" on OS X and chooses a meaningful name for the binary.

Some version of this script should be added to Sage itself, I propose to call it sage-autobdist. Then sage-bdist can handle the low-level stuff of actually building the binary.

I'm adding the script as reference, but it needs some work to integrate it in Sage.

CC: @jhpalmieri @vbraun

Component: build

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/4666

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

comment:2

People get very confused by the generic names and end up downloading completely inappropriate releases, so I am making this a 3.3 blocker since I will be fixing this.

Cheers,

Michael

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

comment:3

Reassign it to 3.3 again.

Cheers,

Michael

[sagetrac-mabshoff]

comment:4

Better luck in 3.4.1.

Cheers,

Michael

[williamstein]

comment:6

If we've released for months and months without fixing this, it doesn't make sense to keep it as a blocker.

[jdemeyer]

Author: William Stein

[jdemeyer]

Changed author from William Stein to William Stein, Jeroen Demeyer

[jdemeyer]

comment:8

Attachment: botdist.py.gz

[kcrisman]

comment:14

A lot of this is now in sage-bdist. Is there still a need for some of the stuff in this?

[jdemeyer]

comment:15

Replying to @kcrisman:

A lot of this is now in sage-bdist. Is there still a need for some of the stuff in this?

That's more a question for the current release manager. Like I mentioned on the ticket, I was using William's script to generate binaries, but if Volker no longer uses this, we might as well close this ticket as "wontfix".

[mezzarobba]

comment:16

Replying to @jdemeyer:

Replying to @kcrisman:

A lot of this is now in sage-bdist. Is there still a need for some of the stuff in this?

That's more a question for the current release manager. Like I mentioned on the ticket, I was using William's script to generate binaries, but if Volker no longer uses this, we might as well close this ticket as "wontfix".

Volker?

[vbraun]

comment:17

I'm not using this script. Labeling binary tarballs by distribution might be worthwile, though. I'm not sure if the current bdist script does that. Note that the buildbots rename the binary tarball as one of the buildsteps.

[jdemeyer]

Reviewer: Jeroen Demeyer

[jdemeyer]

Changed author from William Stein, Jeroen Demeyer to none