On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:31 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
s/spkg/upstream sources (not spkg's!) > 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 -- 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
