> Last August, I released the first version of my slabbe-0.1.spkg. I had to 
> choose at that time between the old-style and the new style. I explained 
> here [1] why I finally choose the old-style. If I use the new style and I 
> release slabbe-0.2 tomorrow during a conference let say for fixing a bug 
> found by a colleague, then the version 0.2 won't install on the sage 
> installation of my colleague. Why? The checksums need to be updated. And, I 
> want it to be a simple installation one liner like "sage -i 
> slabbe-0.2.spkg" that anybody can do. That is why I believe that old style 
> is still usefull for packages farther from sage (my package is not listed 
> anywhere I think).
>
>>  

> > Are you meaning that you still update it as an “old” spkg? 
>>
>> Yes. Reason? Hm. The best reason I have is this: The code in the spkg 
>> has never been published elsewhere, and thus I think that the spkg *is* 
>> upstream. Somebody told me that I should post the code somewhere on 
>> github. But then I think this would be an artificial complication. 
>> Moreover, I plan to migrate the code of the spkg to the Sage library; if 
>> this will be done, the optional spkg will only be useful to do 
>> cross-verifications of computations, and will not be further maintained. 
>>
>
Well, that's two people already... 

For the time being perhaps one can change the wording to indicate "only for 
legacy packages, we expect new packages to be in this format".

I have to say that needing a patch for ''every'' upgrade of a pkg is 
annoying, sage -i should "just work".

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