On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 7:06 PM Erik Bray <erik.m.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We still have quite a bit of code around for supporting old-style
> packages in .spkg archives, though it is not well tested anymore and
> I'm not even 100% sure installing these still works.
>
> We have also noted, since Sage 6.9, that these are deprecated and unsupported.
>
> That seems like long enough to me to rip out all support for them.
> I'd especially like to do this since I feel increasingly compelled to
> rewrite most or all of the sage-spkg script in Python, and it will
> greatly simplify matters to not have to maintain that support.
>
> But even that aside, it seems well past time?

The original discussion got a little off-topic.  With the exception of
maybe one or two packages for which there is a desire to convert to
new-style packages--which can certainly be done--is there any
objection to dropping support for old-style packages, both from the
code and the documentation?

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