On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMHO the list of installed files is an integral piece of package management > and should explicitly be part of the spkg. Automatically generating it is > not an option during parallel compilation. There should be a "spkg-files" or > so in the spkg that lists them. During single package build one could > automatically check that it is up to date, but the actual list of files > needs to be distributed with the spkg.
This wouldn't be as painful if wildcards are allowed... > With that information it would be relatively easy to automatically translate > spkgs into distribution source packages (e.g. srpm). So in the long run we > could make use of native package management schemes... I still like the idea of everything installing into their own directory, and the final "view" is the union of the directories (e.g. via PATHS or symlinks) rather than tying to track/synchronize every package stomping over the same (set of) directories. - Robert -- 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
