On 9 September 2015 at 10:22, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2015-09-09 10:50, John Cremona wrote: > >> 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." >> > > I think the wording is just a detail and not relevant for this vote, so > you can think of option (B) as: display some kind of message and just > install the package. > Not quite -- I was proposing to display the message and *not* install the package -- since I thought that essentially none of the old .spkg will now install anyway? > > > Anyway, the proposed wording in #19158 is > > You are about to download and install an old-style package. While this > might still work fine, old-style packages are unmaintained and deprecated. > > This package will be removed in future versions of SageMath. If you care > about this package, you should make a proper new-style package instead. For > more information about making Sage packages, see > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/packaging.html I like the second sentence better, and some version of the first... John > > > -- > 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.
