On 27 Mai, 02:27, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For Sage, this is simply not true for the majority of *users*. The > > > vast majority of Sage users could care less that we release new > > > versions -- most don't even notice or care. > > > I can't judge this. If it's true, fine. > > Especially for those running servers. But for most the updates are > not as important.
Yes, admins love less frequent updates, as long as users don't complain (and there are no security issues). And alphas & rcs aren't mirrored... (some kind of unintentional? "gold release" feature) > > My experience is rather that many people just update (not only) > > software in general either because they fear missing something or just > > feel they have to have the latest version (they *believe* to be best/ > > superior), i.e. rather *not* driven by *functional* demand. > > But quite different here - there are no email reminders, no anything. Subscribe to sage-release (where pre-releases are announced, too), or sage-announce? ;-) On certain failures, you get a "run sage -upgrade" message. > No huge marketing campaigns (at least not for upgrades; hopefully for > 5.0 we will make a big push for *new* users). As long as you don't > encounter a life-threatening bug, you just keep using it. When you > do, you update (or use sagenb.org). I really like this aspect. I > think this makes Sage a little different from both productivity > software/OSes and more academic/industrial software. The Sagenb aspect is nice. Like Live-CDs for getting an impression before updating/installing (though I even hate reboots). And it's easy to have/keep multiple Sage installations, a rarely available opportunity. -Leif -- 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
