On 5/22/07, Brian Granger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SAGE developers, > > As you may know, I have been working on building some new spkgs and > have also begun refactoring the spkg build scripts themselves. A few > ideas that I would like feedback on: > > 1. Creating a repository for the spkg makefiles and build scripts
+1 Ideally, I would like having a full hg repository for the spkg makefiles *and* the source. I have had to patch close to 10 packages this past weekend and I need to eventually submit patches for all of them. Having an hg repo for these would make the process much more easier. But I would settle for a sage/spkg-patches.txt file that one could edit and keep track of under an hg repository. Some kind of version control on packages is necessary. > For each spkg, there would be a corresponding directory containing the > spkg-install script and the sage subdirectory (but _not_ the source > code for the package itself). I think it would be a good idea to > create a format for the spkgs that is a little more standardized. > Here is an example: > > ipython-0.8 > spkg-install # existing spkg-install script > ./spkg-patches # rename the sage directory to this for clarity > spkg-fetch.py # a python script that could be called to > get the source for ipython > > I think the spkg-fetch.py script is an important part of this. It > would allow us to not include the source code for each package in the > repo, but it would make it very easy to write a script that begins > with only the scripts in the repo and builds a full source > distribution of everything. > > Some questions about this approach: > > Does this seem like the best way to manage the spkg infrastructure? +0 The only problem I see with this is the initial cost of checking out all these packages from sage.math --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
