On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2012-05-13 22:46, Keshav Kini wrote: >> Even more fundamentally, everything that we modify should be tracked by >> version control. The fact that we do not put src/ under revision control >> then directly implies that we should not touch it. > I disagee when it comes to removing parts of a spkg. Several packages > include only partial sources. They contain the upstream tree but with > some files/directories (which Sage doesn't need) removed. I think this > is fine and should be allowed.
Indeed. Many spkg's are full of stuff we absolutely don't want to ship. They have windows binaries in them, java binaries, big pdf's, and other random stuff that wastes space and makes some people nervous. > > In the case of Pynac, the upstream version history in "src/.hg" serves > no purpose for Sage, so I would remove it. > > > Jeroen. > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
