#15642: Use mirrors for tarballs
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-6.7
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Volker Braun | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
u/vbraun/use_mirrors_for_tarballs | 30b1647e7b6a527e72daa7835f26a710306a6099
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by leif):
Replying to [comment:57 vbraun]:
> Also, IMHO we should just phase out old-style spkgs.
I'm all against that. The worst decision was to hardcode package metadata
(solely!) into specific Sage releases, while that data doesn't even show
whether a package is optional, experimental, or whatever. (It's pretty
easy to ''create'' "old-style" packages from that though... ;-) )
In my opinion the main reason we should (still) support real spkgs is that
anybody can easily create and offer such self-contained packages to
others, and installing and using them doesn't artificially depend on the
Sage version. (Whether they'll work of course depends on a couple of
things.)
They're also often much more convenient for testing.
[[BR]]
> As long as we have to drag along that technical debt its very hard to
clean up scripts.
Perhaps with the exception of left-over old-style standard packages, I
don't see a problem.
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