Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 18, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > >> One way to make notifications less obtrusive is to make them >> omnipresent. That is, the banner could always read >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | SAGE Version 2.5.alpha2, Release Date: 2007-05-02 >> | Latest version is 2.5.alpha3, type upgrade() to upgrade. >> | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> While we're at it, maybe the banner should also tell you if you're >> running a vanilla sage or a hacked sage and maybe what the last hg tag >> was. > > I like this idea. It would be nice if you could get this information > from the notebook too--and if (somewhere unobtrusively) it had the > name of the branch you were working on (assuming it's not main, this > is something I've actually wanted for a while).
In fact, you can more or less do this using hg_sage and friends. I once submitted a patch that did all the version/branch reporting before you go shell into python -- so you could abort faster if you run the wrong branch -- and I could dust that off and add a function to report such status information at the same time. Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
