On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:11 PM, William Stein wrote: > >>>> >> >> The only reason that archive/ directory exists is that when I wrote >> the >> Sage package system I was very paranoid about never ever deleting >> anything, for fear of losing valuable work. But it's kind of >> ridiculous >> that you're wasting 3.6GB of disk space. Has anybody reading this >> *ever* looked in spkg/archive/?? If not, I vote for eliminating it >> entirely, >> and deleting old spkg's when their being upgraded instead of moving >> them to spkg/archive. >> >> William >> > > What about making the archive an option on the upgrade in case something > goes wrong? I think most people would be fine with eliminating it, but > it > might be nice to have as an upgrade option.
Sure, if there actually is somebody out there who has ever used the spkg/archive. I'm kind of guessing nobody has ever used it, in which case it seems completely pointless to support. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
