SageNB - Include zope.testbrowser and its dependencies in the SageNB package

[TimDumol]

This package will be used for future testing. Adding another package to a package was also done with the Trac package.

CC: @qed777

Component: notebook

Author: Tim Dumol

Reviewer: William Stein

Merged: sagenb-0.4.8

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7468

[TimDumol]

Adds zope.testbrowser to the package's dependencies and makes spkg-dist automatically download the dependencies. Depends on #7467

[TimDumol]

comment:1

Attachment: trac_7468-zope.testbrowser.patch.gz

This should do the trick.

[qed777]

comment:2

Is zope.testbrowser (or does it appear to be) sufficiently powerful to implement a [nearly] complete Sage Remote Access API (cf. this comment at #7343)?

Programmatic possibilities: login/out; create, archive, delete, rename, share, up/download, publish worksheets; add/remove data files.

[williamstein]

comment:3

This patch is totally unacceptable as is. The problem is this:

(1) Turn off your internet connection, then

(2) Try doing "sage -python setup.py install", and you get

...
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/zope.testbrowser/
Download error: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known -- Some packages may not be found!
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/zope.testbrowser/
Download error: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'zope.testbrowser' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Download error: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or download links found for zope.testbrowser>=3.7.0a1
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('zope.testbrowser>=3.7.0a1')

Now imagine that you're building Sage from source on an airplane, or while camping, or working at a job which for security reasons doesn't allow outside network connections.

Options:

(1) Get zope.testbrowser included as a standard sage package.

(2) Make the dependency on zope.testbrowser optional.

-- william

[TimDumol]

comment:4

I have edited the spkg-dist file, which I believe is used for creating the sagenb spkg, in this patch to automatically download zope.testbrowser and its dependencies, and include it in the spkg. Thus, installing through sage -i sagenb or spkg-install should not require internet access. Inclusion of package dependencies is also done in the Twisted package (zope.interface) and in the Trac package (Genshi).

Please correct me if I am mistaken, though.

[williamstein]

comment:5

Please correct me if I am mistaken, though.

No, that should be fine, and is probably a good idea. Can you post your edited spkg-dist file?

[williamstein]

comment:6

Oops, I stupidly missed that you had already done that 3 weeks ago! Thanks for teaching me setuptools. :-) This indeed looks fine.

[williamstein]

comment:7

Merged into sagenb-0.4.8.

[kcrisman]

Reviewer: William Stein

[kcrisman]

Author: Tim Dumol

[sagetrac-mvngu]

Merged: sagenb-0.4.8