On Monday 24 August 2009 22:01:50 Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Jason Moxham wrote:
> >> I'd personally much rather see the Sage code was distributed as a more
> >> conventional .tar.gz or .tar.bz2.
> >
> > It is , the .spkg is just a empty wrapper(it's SO empty , it's just a
> > rename) , so (I assume) we can upgrade someday to a more compact format
> > eg lzma , and still call it a *.spkg
>
> You missed my point. I wish Sage was distributed as tar file containing
> uncompressed sources. Then the tar file was compressed with bzip2, gzip
> or whatever else you want. The fact the source is distributed as a set
> of compressed files is not a great idea in my personal opinion. I'd
> rather the source was compressed once, and did not consist of a
> collection of compressed files.
>
>
Yeah , I missed your point , I think I agree with you except that sage is not 
a normal program , I think of it more like a linux distribution , where you 
dont get one large src tree but a collection of independent packages.

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