On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 3:36:37 AM UTC-7, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > Let's try to summarize what we have so far. > > 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 >
To clarify, I would really want option (D) if the error message were much more helpful, including the URL for a direct link to the package. If I had to rank my choices: (D) with helpful error message (B) (D) as it currently is -- 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.
