libm4ri and libm4rie are two different libraries...
On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 8:36:38 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: > > Thierry wrote: > > [snip] > > > > The problem with pages under http://www.sagemath.org/packages is that > > they are not up-to-date and there is a conflict with the old-style > > versions and the new-style one, for example, if you type :: > > > > sage -standard > > > > it relies on the page http://www.sagemath.org/packages/standard/list, > and > > you will get something that is inconsistent according to versions, > e.g.:: > > > > sympy-0.7.3 ............................ installed version: > 0.7.6 > > Not just versions, also their names: > > libm4ri-20130416 ....................... not installed > libm4rie-20130416 ...................... not installed > > TOPCOM vs. topcom as an optional package is also nice. > > "pil" got /replaced/ by "Pillow" (or "pillow", who knows). > > > > Instead of writing a new script to deal bith both-old-and-new-style > spkgs, > > i would be +1 for simply removing old-style spkgs, and migrate the > useful > > ones as new-style, then such listing would be trivial to write (and not > > require internet connection). > > So 'sage --standard' would just show "installed" for every package which > is considered standard in the current Sage installation, how useful. > You could of course list whether newer versions are available online, > just to tell people they have to upgrade all of Sage (probably to a > devel version) in order to get/install (all of!) them. (The same is > even true for "new-style" *optional* spkgs.) > > "Old-style" spkgs have their raison d'être (namely, they're > self-contained); in the long run, we may deprecate them, but we should > at least keep support for installing such (e.g. ones offered elsewhere). > > Requiring each and every installable package to have its (exact) > metadata in the git tree at hand is just stupid. (I proposed separate > spkg metadata files* about four or five years ago.) > > > -leif > > ___________ > * SagePAckageMetadata^TM files, *.spam > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
