One other things I forgot to mention that would be nice to have. The way we are using spkg is to distribute a set of python tools that overlaps with, but that is not the same as what sage distributes. The set of tools are are distributing is more focused on numerical computing. Thus, we include things like numpy, scipy and related things, but we don't include the more mathematically focused packages. This is mainly because our users simply need a different subset of tools. Because of this, we maintain our own deps makefile that declares the dependencies among our spkgs.
It would be very nice for people to be able to build a custom distribution that includes the spkgs they want/need and not have to create their own deps file. If this were possible, it would also make it very easy for people to create new spkgs and share them without everyone having ot update their install and deps files. Any ideas on how this could be done? One thought would be to have each spkg contain a file maybe called spkg-deps, that lists its dependencies. This might require more sophisticated versioning capabilities (but we probably want that anyway). The only thing I don't like about this approach is that all the spkgs would have to be unpacked for the dependency analysis to happen. This does give me an idea though. What about removing the version number off the end of the spkg name: foo-1.0.1.spkg -> foo.spkg and instead putting the version number in the same place as the dependencies for the package. This could either be in a file in the spkg or in a separate file. The nice this about this approach is that all the dependency analysis could be done with this files alone. This would allow us to get rid of the newest-version script as well as the deps and install script. Instead we would need a script that looked at the version/deps files, figured out the dependency tree and then built things in the right order. The downside is that I wouldn't want to write the dependency analysis in a shell script - python again would be much nicer. I will think more about these things. To see if there is a better way. Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
