On Jan 20, 9:24 pm, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> > whilehttp://wiki.sagemath.org/experimental_packages_available_for_SAGE
> > is hand edited. Sohttp://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 cannot be out of date, it is the official repo after all :)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 fromhttp://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
> onhttp://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.
Sure, what I meant was that for example
http://wiki.sagemath.org/cmake
should be
http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/cmake
Adding the spkgs to
http://wiki.sagemath.org/experimental_packages_available_for_SAGE
was meant as a temporary workaround until we sort all the issues for
automated spkg pages since I don't think this will happen this week.
> >> 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
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