On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Vincent Delecroix <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/09/2017 20:29, Maarten Derickx wrote: >> >> Since the people in the thread "proposal: downgrade libtheora to >> experimental package" >> at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/olOxh1f6-cc were >> quite in favour of going even further then just downgrading it here a >> concrete proposal: >> >> remove the optional libogg and libtheora packages completely from sage. >> >> for motivation one can see the other thread. Short summary, they don't >> seem >> to add anything a lot of value to sage the library and shipping video and >> audio codecs is not really a goal of sage the distribution, so we should >> not include them even as optional package. Furthermore installing >> libtheora >> is currently broken. >> >> The main reason why I start this new thread is that I think it should be >> clear from just the subject title what the proposed change is, so that the >> sage developers not reading all the details of a long discussion don't >> feel >> surprised if these packages are suddenly gone. >> >> If people have any objections to this please let me know. > > > -1. It is safer to first downgrade to experimental and then remove because > not supported anymore. Some users (not knowing the existence of sage-devel) > might be playing with it (who knows). > > I will upvote in a year or so.
I think downgrading to experimental seems reasonable (and perhaps deprecating, though I suppose one could consider that a form of deprecation...?) It raises the question: Who added these packages to Sage in the first place, and what for? -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
