On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:49 AM, John H Palmieri <[email protected]>wrote:
> According to our documentation, the "src" directory in an spkg should > contain the "vanilla upstream code". I've seen a few spkg's that > modify this by deleting stuff: > > - they might delete documentation (as long as it's not used in any > way by Sage) > - they might delete a Mercurial repository (as long as it's just the > upstream repo, not the one that's supposed to be there) > > These changes make the spkg files much smaller, which is good. But > are these acceptable changes? I think they should be, since they reduce bloat. I am for changing the definition of src to be: "src must be a subset of vanilla upstream code". Absolutely nothing should be added, and sticking vanilla upstream there shouldn't break the spkg. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
