On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
Why? Don't you think "sage-spkg" is more logical, since the file it creates ends in ".spkg"? > > ---- > 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 -- 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
