On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Robert Bradshaw >> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >>> I don't think we should be storing the unpacked src/ directory in the >>> spkg at all, instead we should store a pointer to a tarball (which >>> could be external or right in the spkg itself. Upon install this >>> tarball would get unpacked into src/. The sage-spkg script would >>> unpack this tarball, compare it to src/ (if it exists) making sure >>> there are no differences (that are not accounted for by the existing >>> patches, or perhaps even creating a patch to describe the difference), >>> and then create the .spkg file excluding the src/ directory (but >>> possibly including the pristine, unpacked tarball). >> >> I read the above 4 times and I don't understand what you're proposing, >> except maybe (?) to make it impossible to build Sage if you're not >> connected to the internet...? Or to basically change nothing? >> Confused. > > This would make it possible to ship spkg-install scripts and SPKG.txt > files for all optional and experimental SPKGs at a low disk space cost > (because their src/ dirs would not be shipped). Integrating this stuff, > along with everything else, into a single repository, would allow for > easier development. This goes back to what we discussed at Review Days > 2.
This = what? Clearly you claim to understand what Robert is proposing. I don't even know what "this" is. > > -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 -- 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
