On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:10 AM, David Kirkby <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > Why did you say "like you". Neither John nor I said that we have seen things added. If something gets added to src/ that's horrible, and I want to know about it. If you can remember anything, please let me know, since that's really useful to remove. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected]<sage-devel%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
