Hi Erik, On 2018-08-10, Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I ask because I *am* interested in having pre-built binary packages > that can be dropped into Sage, but that would be slightly different.
If I understand correctly, having pre-built packages would be totally orthogonal to the question whether old style packages should still be supported. Originally, I was against changing from old to new style spkgs, and I still don't see a very compelling reason why the change was made. Isn't the only difference that everything that used to be in a single bzip compressed tar ball (spkg-install, spkg-check, SPKG.txt, patches, the upstream sources) is now more distributed (with upstream sources in upstream/ and the rest in build/pkgs)? I do see an advantage of having spkg-* under version control. And I do of course see that in the long run it isn't very fruitful to support two different formats. Best regards, Simon -- 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.
