On 04/13/12 04:43, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > I would like to know whether Sage developers find it important that > *new* spkgs (developed today) work on *older* versions of Sage (say, > sage-4.7 or sage-4.8). > > Personally, I don't care at all about this. If it works on the latest > beta, that's fine. I think we should not make spkg-install files more > bloated by adding extra code to ensure compatibility. > > Leif Leonhardy, on the other hand, thinks it's good to add code to > spkg-install if it makes the spkg work on older Sage versions. > > This is not about upgrading the *whole* Sage (./sage -upgrade), which I > think we should support. This is only about installing just one spkg > (./sage -i ...). > > This disagreement is part of the reason why the review process is stuck > on #11616 (upgrade and fix MPIR, a sage-5.0 blocker). Any opinions?
Don't require them to support older versions, but if someone wants to do the work and test it, let them? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
