On 21 April 2010 16:49, John H Palmieri <[email protected]> wrote: > According to our documentation, the "src" directory in an spkg should > contain the "vanilla upstream code". I've seen a few spkg's that > modify this by deleting stuff: > > - they might delete documentation (as long as it's not used in any > way by Sage) > - they might delete a Mercurial repository (as long as it's just the > upstream repo, not the one that's supposed to be there) > > These changes make the spkg files much smaller, which is good. But > are these acceptable changes? > > -- > John
It has been customary to put a note in SPKG.txt under "Special Instructions" things like * Delete documentation in src/foobar as not needed * Delete binary compaineis in src/bin * Delete huge files in src/huge has not needed So people know stuff has been removed. Like you, I have seen things added too. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
