On 2015-09-09 11:26, John Cremona wrote:
Not quite -- I was proposing to display the message and *not* install
the package
OK, so this is
(D'): sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should give an error. However, it should
determine whether an old-style package named OLDSTYLEPKGNAME exists and
adjust the error message in case it does exist.
since I thought that essentially none of the old .spkg
will now install anyway?
Who are you to decide that? I really dislike this attitude of "we,
developers, know better than the user what the user wants".
If the "essentially none" in your sentence would be literally none, then
you are right. But even if there is just a single old-style package
which works and is useful, I think we (the Sage developers) should not
actively prevent the user from installing that package.
That's also why we have experimental packages: those are packages which
may or not work properly or work only partially. Do you think we should
remove all of them just because they might not work?
No offense meant,
Jeroen.
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