Re: Programmatically obtain a complete list of commands and keywords for updating the PARI/GP third-party IDE tools.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 9:53 PM Bill Allombert
<Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 02:25:41PM +0100, Gottfried Helms wrote:
> > Am 14.01.2023 um 03:52 schrieb Hongyi Zhao:
> > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 2:11 AM Bill Allombert
> > > <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> > (...)
> > >> Note: the PARI installation includes a file pari.desc that includes all this data
> > >> in RFC822 format. We also provide a perl module to read it PARI/822.pm
> > >
> > > I downloaded the source distribution from here [1], and then performed
> > > the following check:
> > >
> > (...)
> > >
> > > As you can see, there is no the file pari.desc at all.
> > >
> > Hmm, in the GP-version, downloaded in the tarball
> >
> >   pari-2.13.1.tar\pari-2.13.1\src\functions
> >
> > I didn't find something like "pari.desc" as well.
>
> I said 'installation' not 'distribution', you need to do 'make install' to get it.
> It installed in datadir.

Thank you for pointing this out, and I verify it as follows:

werner@X10DAi:~/Public/repo/pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.10
Release:    22.10
Codename:    kinetic

werner@X10DAi:~/Public/repo/pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git$ ug ^datadir=
Olinux-x86_64/pari.cfg:datadir='/usr/local/share/pari'
werner@X10DAi:~/Public/repo/pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/git/pari.git$ ls
/usr/local/share/pari
doc  examples  misc  PARI  pari.desc

> Cheers,
> Bill.

Best,
Zhao