Re: [sage-devel] Rework download/extract code in sage-spkg (#12602) needs review

2012-03-13 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
*bump* This still needs review and is quite important because it is part of a series of patches to the Sage build process. In particular, the GCC spkg depends on it. On 2012-03-02 17:21, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > The current code in sage-spkg to determine which package to install and > whether to

[sage-devel] Rework download/extract code in sage-spkg (#12602) needs review

2012-03-02 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
The current code in sage-spkg to determine which package to install and whether to download it is too complicated (and probably buggy). Also get rid of calls to the newest_version script, allow gzip compression of .spkg files, get rid of the "download again" part (why was it needed?). There is one