On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 3:02 PM Thierry <sage-googlesu...@lma.metelu.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 01:29:33PM +0200, Erik Bray wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 6:54 AM Vincent Delecroix > > <20100.delecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 08/08/2018 20:12, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:19:13 UTC-6, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > > >> > > > >> IMO, it would be good to have here a current list of old-style spkgs > > > >> so we > > > >> can be explicit about what things we are dropping support for. > > > >> > > > > > > > > And can we please not omit "huge" packages like > > > > polytopes_db_4d-1.0.spkg - > > > > I do use it and would like to keep it available, but I have no idea > > > > where > > > > it is located and whether downloading it still works - I use a local > > > > copy > > > > for many years (it is 8.7G). > > > > > > Could you kindly upgrade it to a new style package? (or at least open a > > > ticket with a pointer to the spkg tarball) > > > > Entirely by coincidence, unrelated to this thread, I just opened: > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26029 > > > > I'm glad to know there's at least someone who uses it. I was not able > > to find a copy of the package itself on any of the Sage mirrors I > > checked. But I think we should decide what to do about it. Keeping > > it as a .spkg isn't really helpful, and keeping "huge" packages as a > > special case for still supporting .spkgs defeats the purpose of > > dropping support. > > For the record, note that there is a wiki page that follows the migration, > and that lists the old-style packages that are still of interest > (polytopes_db_4d is one of them) > https://wiki.sagemath.org/Classify%20old-style%20packages
Perhaps a good way to find out what really needs attention is to a) Make the deprecation louder--e.g. break outright and refuse to install unless an additional flag is added or something like that. b) See who complains--if anyone--and if not we can drop them. For all the non-mathematical and experimental packages I would just leave them if they are not required by Sage. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
