On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2010-11-03 08:57, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>> Even easier, combine sage-scripts, extcode, and examples into the main
>> Sage repository. That could simplify things a lot and lead to (IMHO)
>> more and better development and accessibility of those other
>> components.
>
>> I still have yet to see any compelling arguments for why
>> these are separate.
> One argument I can think of (not sure whether it's compelling) is the
> size of the packages: sage is 48MB, sagenb is 18MB, extcode is 11M, all
> in the top 10 of largest packages.  So keeping a natural segmentation
> might not be a bad idea.

Keeping sagenb separate makes sense, but keeping things separate based
on size would suggest that sage.* should be split up. 11MB is nothing
these days.

> Also: your solution seems like a lot more work to implement.

Perhaps. A lot less hassle once it's implemented though.

- Robert

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