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.

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Tim Lahey
PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo

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