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

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