Hi,

I'm trying to open the flint spkg from the recent sage. As per the
instructions I typed:

tar jxvf flint-1.3.0.p1.spkg

on sage.math, but it complained:

bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I still don't understand why the libraries have to be in this spkg
format. Surely it makes more sense for an open source project to have
*all* code accessible easily, i.e. in source form, not packed into
tar.?? files.

Does anyone else feel the same way about this issue? Is there a
technical reason for using a non-standard spkg format instead of
having the source trees accessible from within the sage source tree?

Bill.
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