I was the person who updated the pickle jar in trac 9265. Like Jeroen, "I personally don't know much about the pickle jar in Sage", but I was given some instructions about what to do which came down to set SAGE_PICKLE_JAR,untar the pickle jar and copy the new pickles in, and tar the jar up again.I certainly was not aware that old pickles (which are essentially being deprecated) should not be removed.
It would help if there was some good (or even bad) documentation available which described how to update the pickle jar. As far as I am aware this is not covered in the developers guide, or anywhere else. I did search for documentation to complement the notes that I was given but I only found an oblique reference to occasionally needing to update the pickle jar in sage.structure.sage_object.unpickle_all and http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10768 which opens a ticket to improve the current mechanism. If it is decided that the pickles that I removed need to be reinstated I'll do this of course. I suggest that the best way to do this is with an additional ticket/patch on top of #9265. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
