On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 2:54:28 PM UTC-7, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 1:50:29 PM UTC-7, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> On 2015-08-27 22:29, John H Palmieri wrote: >> > Basically, all of the old-style packages are no longer easily >> available, >> > just the new-style ones. This is not ideal, I think, but it was a >> > solution to the problem of running "sage -i python" and getting an old >> > version of Python installed, which broke Sage. >> You just made *all* old-style packages essentially uninstallable without >> even changing the documentation? >> > > No, Volker did. >
See http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/19004. I for one am not wedded to the solution there; if you have other ideas, I wouldn't mind backing out those changes and doing something different. > > John > > > >> >> I think that's a horrible solution to a problem which could be solved by >> simply not having an obsolete "python" package on the Sage servers. >> >> See also #19105 (no code yet) by the way. >> > -- 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.
