Hello folks, the extcode repo in Sage is somewhat of a dumping ground what doesn't really fit anywhere else. Below is the disk use of all directories that aren't more or less empty:
44K dist 36K gap 24K images 1.2M javascript 228K magma 52K maxima 3.0M notebook 1.9M pari 400K pickle_jar 204K sagebuild 16K singular 7.2M total The 3.0 MB notebook is at least size-wise 95% javascript, too. We (Jason Grout is doing all the hard work) are in the process of moving all the javascript packages we use (jsmath, jquery, ...) to spkgs so that the repo will be much smaller in the future while the .hg repo information itself will grow by another couple MB. In the end the compressed extcode.spkg will be just as large as before the removal. And shipping such an amount of basically 3rd party code we checked in and then removed seems like a waste of resources. But what to do? (a) nuke the extrepo and move things into other places. The pickle_jar could go into the main Sage repo, the pari scripts into the pari.spkg, the images and the notebook code could also be part of the main repo. That leaves certain code for Maxima, Singular and Magma in search of a place to hang out. (b) reset the extrepo. This is the less invasive option, but would destroy the version history of some of the files. One option here is to check in files in the name of the previous main author, but it seems like a bad move. Either way we should do something about the extocde repo. Since the doc repo will die in 3.3. it seems like an excellent opportunity to finish some long needed cleanup. I could certainly imagine some combination of (a) and (b), i.e. the pari data seems to be large untouched in a while and the pari.spkg would seem like a canonical place for it. Putting those pari scripts and data under revision control also seems rather pointless. Thoughts? 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
