William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> > wrote: >> On 2012-05-16 02:47, William Stein wrote: >>> I like spkg-dist, since it *is* spkg-dist, at least in some packages I >>> made, such as the core sage library. >> spkg-dist actually does two things: >> (1) it prepares the files inside the spkg >> (2) it packs and compresses it into a .spkg file >> >> In the PARI spkg, I made a script "spkg-make" (this name might not be >> the best) which only does the first part: it creates the src/ directory >> from an upstream git repository. I would encourage this for more packages. >> >> To minimize confusion, I would prefer normal Sage packages to have a >> script which only does (1) and which is not called sage-spkg. In PARI I >> called this "spkg-make" but maybe now I would call it "spkg-src" or >> "spkg-prepare" as somebody else proposed. > > I like "sage-src", since it is consistent with "sage-spkg", and so far > everybody like "sage-spkg". > It's consistent because "-src" creates the "src/" directory, just like > "-spkg" creates the ".spkg" file.
FWIW I at first found it slightly difficult to remember whether to use sage-pkg or sage-spkg. -Keshav ---- Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- 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
