On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > 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.
+1 That README.txt doesn't look like it belongs there at all, it's a generic sage README. Probably would make sense to have one in /spkg. I think the statement that an spkg is a (bzipped) tar with an install script and metadata, plus a pointer to the actual docs, is all that should go in that one. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
