On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Georg S. Weber > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Hey guys, >> >> having thought about it a bit more, I suddenly realized that I came to >> like this ".spkg" extension. >> That's purely emotional, of course. >> But I'd surely miss it. > > Since this is a question about user interfaces I think emotions should > be given a lot of weight.
Yep, emotional it is. (And I also personally like variety. In any given week, you would find me using at least 3 different operating systems just for my personal enjoyment :-) So -1 to my rants above. However, if we make a transition to the ".tar.bz2" extension or something similar, I'd have no objection either. A rose... er... sage by any other name still smells as sweet ;-) But if we decide to stick with ".spkg", then I agree that we really need to fix that chubby README.txt in spkg/standard. I'm looking at sage-3.1.4/spkg/standard/README.txt at the moment, but it has next to nothing about ".spkg". I don't think the fix would be hard at all. Perhaps it suffice to include [1] a brief description of ".spkg"; and [2] a pointer to relevant parts of the official doc should readers want more info on the extension. Yeah, I want to be less confused, so I'm willing to upload a diff to trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac I won't do it right away because I want to know people's opinions about the issues contained in this thread. That is, I'm still awaiting the final resolution. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen Web: http://nguyenminh2.googlepages.com Blog: http://mvngu.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
