#19004: Do not search old-style spkgs
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.9
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Volker Braun | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
u/vbraun/do_not_search_old_style_spkgs|
a8ccb41d3e45a9d79a60a9510f1faeb90111e86f
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by vbraun):
Nobody in their right mind is going to want to install the old python
spkg. Its akin to handing out razor blades to babies if you just tell
people to type in this other command to install the python spkg. The
entire mashing-up old (and almost always broken) and new packages is
insane, and technically savvy users trip over it on a daily basis. As
documented on sage-devel.
This ticket doesn't change `sage --optional`, but IMHO its just as insane
that it mashes old and new spkgs together. In any case, this is not what
this ticket is about.
If you want to distribute code outside of Sage (in a spkg) then imho its
not too much to ask that you also tell your users the download url.
Weighted against the very real and documented risk that people get
confused about standard packages, this is a no-brainer to me.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19004#comment:17>
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