In the case of ntl, which probably prompted your email, I was indeed
disappointed that
I didn't have a tar ball ready to upload as a result.
+1 for putting common bits in a central location, that would include
* fetching
* unpacking
* packaging the end product
At least.
François
On 9/10/2014, a
I have noticed that, for most of the spkg-src scripts, it is not
documented at all *how* they should be used. Also the developer
documentation at
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/packaging.html#modified-tarballs
doesn't say what exactly such a script should do.
This is because these are mo
