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? -- 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.
