On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 4:06:38 AM UTC-8 Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 04:49:23PM -0800, Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > The first few user packages have been added in 9.3.beta7: > > ore_algebra, sage_flatsurf, admcycles, slabbe, surface_dynamics. > > We should notice that, contrary to other packages, those packages should > be considered as downstream (not upstream), and this should be reflected > in our release process. > That's right, this is an important distinction. In the current case, it should be the opposite, after downstream adapted > their code to our changes, so that those packages are not broken for the > official release. > > Hence, there should be a way to update the versions of such packages > during beta[-1] (the one before rc0), at least those packages should be > tagged "downstream" somewhere (e.g. whithin SPKG.rst file or whatever), > so that someone could have a look before the rc. > As Vincent has pointed out, we currently do not use version constraints for these (downstream) user packages. I think it should be the responsibility of the downstream package to define a versioning policy - define when they plan to drop support for a particular Sage version. Then we can use an appropriate version constraint in the "install-requires.txt" file for this package in build/pkgs. Another question: what happens if at the end of a Sage release cycle, > the downstream package is still broken ? Shall we remove the package > from build/pkgs ? Shall we add a temporary patch within the spkg > directory ? Or add a "broken" keyword for the "type" file ? Setting type to "experimental" would be good enough, I think. This already issues a scary warning. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/b17bbe5c-67be-4ed1-a8c5-3dd5c0199b05n%40googlegroups.com.
