On 10 September 2015 at 11:36, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be>
wrote:

> Let's try to summarize what we have so far.
>

Good idea.


>
> I am going to ignore responses of the form "just port all/some packages to
> new-style". That's certainly a good thing to do, but it doesn't answer the
> question. It's also a more long-term solution, while we need something by
> the next stable Sage release.
>
> So far, nobody was in favour of (A) and (C), so that gives us 2 remaining
> options:
>
> (B) sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should still work but with a clear warning
> message.
> (D) sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should give an error (possibly a more helpful
> error message than what we currently have).
>
> Votes so far are:
> (B): Jeroen Demeyer, Simon King
> (D): Volker Braun, John Cremona, John Palmieri
>

Am I right that Simon's package is one (perhaps the only one) for which (B)
would be useful?  If that is true then I don't wish to make things hard for
Simon.  But then I don't know what the obstacles are to converting his spkg.

John


>
> Anybody else wants to give his/her opinion?
>
>
> Jeroen.
>
>
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