On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 1 July 2010 19:26, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My suggestion requires changing no spkg-install files; your involves >> changing all of them. >> Mine does involve rewriting patches/ directories though. > >> William Stein > > As I made clear, I doubt anyone would go around changing the patches > which are currently patched with 'cp'. Only when they need to be > patched again would anyone change the method of applying a patch. > Gradually over time, the number of patches applied with 'cp' would > decrease and the number with 'patch' increase. > > If you look at this thread, and the other on Singular, you will find a > large number of people believe adding 'patch' is a good idea, these > include, but are probably not limited to: > > Myself > François Bissey > John Cremona > Adam Webb > Ivan Andrus > Jason Grout > > Others have expressed dismay at the way the patching currently works.
My proposal does involve using patch. It's just that patch is used automatically by "sage -pkg" rather than explicitly in spkg-install. -- William > > Anyway, its your project. I can live with using 'cp' - I just don't > think it is a very good idea. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
