I would like to know whether Sage developers find it important that *new* spkgs (developed today) work on *older* versions of Sage (say, sage-4.7 or sage-4.8).
Personally, I don't care at all about this. If it works on the latest beta, that's fine. I think we should not make spkg-install files more bloated by adding extra code to ensure compatibility. Leif Leonhardy, on the other hand, thinks it's good to add code to spkg-install if it makes the spkg work on older Sage versions. This is not about upgrading the *whole* Sage (./sage -upgrade), which I think we should support. This is only about installing just one spkg (./sage -i ...). This disagreement is part of the reason why the review process is stuck on #11616 (upgrade and fix MPIR, a sage-5.0 blocker). Any opinions? Jeroen. -- 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
