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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