Hi Volker, On 2015-09-09, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 5:45:14 PM UTC+2, Simon King wrote: >> >> However, I believe that "sage -i <full url of an old style spkg>" should >> still be supported. > > > Agree, and this is not what this thread is about.
Is it not? OK, then I indeed misunderstood. So, what is the thread about? Removing all official optional old-style packages from the server? There are several less drastic ways to proceed: 1) Have a deprecation period. I.e., the old-style optional spkgs remain on the server, a warning is printed, SageMath tries to install it (which may fail if the package did not cope with recent internal changes in SageMath), and after one year the spkg is removed from the server (unless the maintainer transforms it to new-style). 2) Demote all optional old-style packages to experimental packages. If I understand correctly, installing an experimental package requests conformation of the user. Which is fine, unless we have a script. 3) Raise an error that points the user to an url (or to the address of the maintainer) from which the old-style package can be obtained. IMHO, each of these solutions is better than bluntly saying that the spkg doesn't install or doesn't exist. Cheers, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
