Maybe Martin rather meant something like "sage -upgrade".
That would sound like a great idea if no compilation is involved, but I 
don't think FriCAS currently has the manpower to provide binaries for 
any possible major platform.

Maybe it makes sense to keep the sage fricas.spkg alway up-to-date.

Ralf

On 10/19/2008 10:40 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> Martin Rubey wrote:
>> YES.  By the way: wouldn't it make sense to keep the svn files, so users can
>> type svn up and get newer versions?  It's not 100% reliable, but should work
>> most of the time.
>>
> 
> I do not think it is a good idea:
> 
> 1) .svn subdirectories significantly increase tarball size
> 
> 2) Releases are done from separate branches, which should not change
>    later.  So plain update will not work.  I think that you can
>    "re-branch" the tree, but folks who can do this probably do
>    svn checkout anyway.

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