Em Sáb, 2008-11-22 às 15:17 -0800, William Stein escreveu: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:11 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > >>>> > >> > >> The only reason that archive/ directory exists is that when I wrote > >> the > >> Sage package system I was very paranoid about never ever deleting > >> anything, for fear of losing valuable work. But it's kind of > >> ridiculous > >> that you're wasting 3.6GB of disk space. Has anybody reading this > >> *ever* looked in spkg/archive/?? If not, I vote for eliminating it > >> entirely, > >> and deleting old spkg's when their being upgraded instead of moving > >> them to spkg/archive. > >> > >> William > >> > > > > What about making the archive an option on the upgrade in case something > > goes wrong? I think most people would be fine with eliminating it, but > > it > > might be nice to have as an upgrade option. > > Sure, if there actually is somebody out there who has ever used the > spkg/archive. > I'm kind of guessing nobody has ever used it, in which case it seems > completely > pointless to support. > > William A compromise option would be to delete all versions except the one that's being upgraded from, so that archive/ only has one version.
But even that may be pointless, since having previous versions is the whole point of using a version control system, and sage uses mercurial, which should allow to revert to old spkgs. Ronan Paixão --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
