mabshoff wrote: > 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. >
Hi Michael, > 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 cannot be out of date, it is the official repo after all :) > Still I think there is some dead wood there :) And there is lot of room in the second column to give more information! This also applies to the Optional Packages. > 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. Section 3.3 of the Programmer's Guide needs updating too. > > 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. > Sure, seems good to me. >> 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? > No, it was you who recommanded me to add info on http://wiki.sagemath.org/experimental_packages_available_for_SAGE. Very ironically :)! Ok, I should follow the leader :), but in this case I followed the link to spkgTemplate, filled that with info. >> 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
