On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:52:03 William Stein wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:43 PM, François Bissey > > <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:30:26 William Stein wrote: > >> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, François Bissey > >> > >> <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > If someone is interested in getting numpy-1.8.1/scipy-0.14.0 in sage, > >> > they can review http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/16299 > >> > >> I glanced at it for a second and noticed that [1] completely deletes > >> the entire SPKG.txt change history of that package. > >> > >> [1] > >> http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/commit/?h=62c44eee3c74b71ce7a08357d68c8f > >> cb > >> 707ed0ae > > > >> Is that intentional? For example, these lines get deleted forever: > > Yes. > > > >> I've never been a huge fan of SPKG.txt being our change log, rather > >> than just the revision history. However, the fact is that SPKG.txt is > >> an important part of documenting the change history, and it *does* get > >> used > >> in debugging [2], so I'm not sure we can just delete it. > >> > >> [2] http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15178 > > > > I am aware of this. Although historically I chased those through hg > > commits > > were possible in the past. > > > > I know that the squashing of the changelog in the new style sage is > > unpopular in some quarters but I am sticking to the official line. > > Someone wanting to dig the pre-git era, not always well maintained, > > changelog in SPKG.txt is welcome to do it from a copy of sage 5.12. > > So the official decision (that I know nothing about) was to delete all > the change logs, but to do so at random times over the next few years > (?) when packages get upgraded? > > I'm no big fan of the SPKG.txt changelog, which always seemed > redundant to me. But if we're going to officially get rid of them, > why not just get rid of all of them at once? >
It has been more or less done progressively as we touch the various spkg rather than a big swipe. I guess someone could try to do it in an automated way. The "official" line is the developer guide: https://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/packaging.html#the-spkg-txt-file The only mention of the changelog is for old style spkg: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/packaging_old_spkgs.html#the-file-spkg-txt Now, if you think that's a dumb decision we can have a voting moment or a good flamewar. Francois -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
