On 04/13/12 04:43, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> I would like to know whether Sage developers find it important that
> *new* spkgs (developed today) work on *older* versions of Sage (say,
> sage-4.7 or sage-4.8).
>
> Personally, I don't care at all about this. If it works on the latest
> beta, that's f
I don't think that new spkgs should be required to work on older
released versions. For example, two spkgs which I have a strong
interest in are eclib (standard) and database_cremona_ellcurve
(optional); in both cases, changes to a new version of the spkg
require patches to the Sage library in or
I would like to know whether Sage developers find it important that
*new* spkgs (developed today) work on *older* versions of Sage (say,
sage-4.7 or sage-4.8).
Personally, I don't care at all about this. If it works on the latest
beta, that's fine. I think we should not make spkg-install files m
