Though I'm in favor of making things easier for the debian process (both (a) to add more Sage users and (b) in the perhaps wildly overly optimistic hope that one day Canonical will support Sage somehow), I wonder if it is possible for someone sufficiently skillful to write a script which crawls through the *.spkg files and rewrites them in a new directory as files convenient for Tim Abbott to use. Is this doable, and if so would it help?
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Tim Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've recently learned that one factor contributing to the long review > delay for the Debian sagemath package has been the fact that their tools > for reviewing packages for copyright issues weren't able to open ".spkg" > files (they do handle .tar.bz2 files correctly, but apparently detect file > type by extension). > > However, I think this is a good opportunity to discuss whether the merits > of the .spkg extension for Sage packages. Fundamentally, we're using a > nonstandard extension for a standard file type. This breaks various tools > that try to infer file types from extensions (the most common nuisance for > me is bash's tab completion of "tar -xf"). > > I sent the Debian folks a patch to treat ".spkg" files like ".tar.bz2" > files for their tool, but I doubt that the people who maintain bash > completion defaults are going to be excited about adding special code for > Sage's .spkg extension. > > So, I'd like to get people's opinions on moving to standard .tar.bz2 > extensions for spkg archives. > > If people think it's a good idea in principle, I'll work on generating a > patch for gracefully handling the transition without e.g. making everyone > rebuild every package in their extant sage trees (which I suspect is the > largest practical concern). > > -Tim Abbott > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
