On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:11 PM, William Stein wrote:
>>> > > The only reason that archive/ directory exists is that when I wrote > the > Sage package system I was very paranoid about never ever deleting > anything, for fear of losing valuable work. But it's kind of > ridiculous > that you're wasting 3.6GB of disk space. Has anybody reading this > *ever* looked in spkg/archive/?? If not, I vote for eliminating it > entirely, > and deleting old spkg's when their being upgraded instead of moving > them to spkg/archive. > > William > What about making the archive an option on the upgrade in case something goes wrong? I think most people would be fine with eliminating it, but it might be nice to have as an upgrade option. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
