Re: [sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-20 Thread David Kirkby
On 20 March 2010 17:01, Rishikesh wrote: > I have problem with #1 and #4 > > with #1 > spkgs are almost always not created by the authors of the package. > Compiler warnings happen in compiling almost every  package. It will > be too much expect that people creating spkg eliminate compiler > warni

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 19, 8:46 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: 1) Are there any warnings about depreciated options? If so, you need to understand why the option was given, why it depreciated, and what you should do about it. On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Rishikesh wrote: I have problem with #1 and #4

[sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-20 Thread Rishikesh
I have problem with #1 and #4 with #1 spkgs are almost always not created by the authors of the package. Compiler warnings happen in compiling almost every package. It will be too much expect that people creating spkg eliminate compiler warnings, even though the package compiles. with #4 I agree

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-20 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
John H Palmieri wrote: On Mar 19, 6:21 pm, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Does anyone have any comments on those, or additions? The guidelines you listed above sound reasonable to me. I agree, except for part of #4: "The author m

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mar 19, 2010, at 6:33 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: On Mar 19, 6:21 pm, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Does anyone have any comments on those, or additions? The guidelines you listed above sound reasonable to me. I agree, excep

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-19 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi John, On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > By the way, to facilitate testing on Solaris, we should have a recent > binary build available so people can quickly install a copy on t2.math > (for instance) to which they have write access.  It would be great if > there wer

[sage-devel] Re: Guidelines for updating standard packages

2010-03-19 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 19, 6:21 pm, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi David, > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > > wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any comments on those, or additions? > > The guidelines you listed above sound reasonable to me. I agree, except for part of #4: "The author must provi