http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19802

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> "pyx" is an old-style spkg, nobody has touched it in at least 2 years when
> we changed the packaging system. Nobody tests it, clearly nobody uses it,
> and I dare say nobody knows what its for. Apparently its SPKG.txt has barely
> any useful information, we don't know who packaged it. It clearly doesn't
> pass the bar for an optional package, which is why it hasn't been converted
> to a new-style package.
>
> Which also means that pyx's packaging scripts are not in the git repo. So
> there isn't going to be any grep-ing for deprecated stuff (like environment
> variables) or any kind of souce audit going to happen.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 10:15:23 PM UTC+1, William wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Its yet another old-style spkg booby trap.
>>
>> Can you please clarify -- what does the problem I described have to do
>> with old style versus new style?  The problem is code that contains a
>> docstring whose existence breaks import the python path module.
>>
>> William
>>
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