On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
> Hello, > > as you might know, we currently have two kinds of packages in Sage: the > old-style .spkg files which were the norm in Sage 5.x and the new-style > $SAGE_ROOT/build/pkgs packages which are currently the norm. > > The question is: to what extent should we continue supporting old-style > packages? > > (A) sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should just install the package, there is no > difference with new-style packages from the user's point of view. > (B) sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should still work but with a clear deprecation > warning. > (C) sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should still work but only after a "are you > sure?" confirmation, like we have for experimental packages. > (D) sage -i OLDSTYLEPKGNAME should give an error. As I mentioned before I greatly prefer just fixing things so they work, and I'm really happy to see that much progress was made toward that goal. Regarding the above I think (b) is the best option given our long established deprecation policy. Also if we were to immediately switched to (d) and I hit it, I would just curse and hack things back to (b) anyways (and maybe write a post ruminating about deprecation policies). Our time limit approach to deprecation is kind of odd by the way -- much more standard these days is semver (semantic versioning) which is something we have only minimally worried about. William > > In Sage 6.8 we have (A) and in the latest betas, we have (D). I think that > (D) is an over-reaction to the problem that some old-style packages are > confusing or broken. > > My personal vote goes to (B) since it still allows non-interactive scripts > to work like before but it shows a clear message that packages should > migrate to new-style packages. This is also implemented in #19158. > > Jeroen.. > > -- > 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. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- 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.
