Re (B): a deprecation warning is normally a message to the user that they should start to do things in a different way, as the old way will stop working. This does not seem appropriate here, since it is not the user who is expected to change behaviour (unless you regard all users as developers!). So rather than a deprecation warning as such why not a message saying
"OLDSTYLEPACKAGE is no longer supported by SageMath; if it was important for your work, please contact <sage-support?> with a request to upgrade the package." Then, if many such requests come in for a package we will at least know what is missed and could be given priority. John On 9 September 2015 at 09:28, Nathann Cohen <nathann.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Of course we should do that, but that's orthogonal to the question I > asked. > > I don't think that (E) is going to happen short-term. > > > > As long as there is still at least one old-style package, we need to > define > > what should happen when a user types > > I suspect that it is not so orthogonal, and that it is the main source > of disagreement between Volker and you. He seems to say that "all > packages which work are now new-style", so that there is no "useful" > old-style package left. > > He thus considers them not as old-style but as "broken", which solves > the problem (for him). If there is any of them which is not broken, > well, turning it into a new-style package does the job. > > Nathann > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
