On Jan 20, 7:29 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jaap,
> There are two main entrances to the Experimental Packages: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/experimental_packages_available_for_SAGE > > and > > http://www.sagemath.org/packages/experimental/ > > They seem to be out of sync. Yep. But http://www.sagemath.org/packages/experimental/ is autogenerated via script while http://wiki.sagemath.org/experimental_packages_available_for_SAGE is hand edited. So http://www.sagemath.org/packages/experimental/ cannot be out of date, it is the official repo after all :) Ticket #855 suggests the right way to do this: all spkgs should have some sort of description file. The way I would like to solve this is the following way: a) add a link from http://www.sagemath.org/packages/experimental/index.html for all spkgs that link to a standard location in the wiki, i.e. wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/foo for experimental spkg foo b) Add all possible information in that wiki page in the SpkgTemplate format. That format could still use some discussion. I have started to add SPKG.txt to most spkgs I worked on in the last couple weeks, especially if they were totally void of documentation and proved somewhat tricky to get hold of the sources. After that I would remove all hand edited spkg listings in the wiki in favour of the autogenerated ones since the hand edited ones will go out of sync sooner or later and we should avoid duplicating content between the different websites. > If you are an active maintainer of one or more experimental packages, > please step forward and give us some details. From a message of Michael > Abshoff: > > > You should stick the description of the spks into the > > spkg prefix like > > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/mpfr > > > and also add a SPKG.txt (if it isn't already there) in the format of > > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkgTemplate > > E-mail me off list if you want me to do it for you. Ironically you did put the newly created descriptions for foo in wiki.sagemath.org/foo instead of wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/foo - was that an oversight? > Some of the items on the lists seem obsolete. Maybe William or Michael > can do an update? Sure. Let me catch up on yesterday's email about which packages to update, I will do so in the next couple hours. > Jaap Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
