On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Feb 14, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > >> On Feb 14, 12:47 pm, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: >>> >>> As a longer term solution, would it not be worth having code in Sage >>> which checks if the current date is more than X months since the Sage >>> release date, and if so gives a warning like... >> >> My idea for that was to check this website: >> http://www.sagemath.org/version.html >> >> This should happen once a day or every few days, in parallel on >> startup because website might not work and hence delays startup time >> and should be opt-out in case you have reasons to not check this. >> Going through the webserver logs, this might additionally give us an >> idea how many users are out there. This would require an UID, like >> Firefox and many others do, too. They create a unique client ID number >> for each installation. That id would be stored in ~/.sage and appended >> to this request like verson.html?uid=hashcode > > -1 to the phone home idea. It might be good to warn of releases that are > really old, but this won't help with the one already in Debian. > > - Robert
Since we're voting, +1 to the phone home idea simply because I've received requests for this feature *frequently* when I give talks. It's really standard in just about all major software these days. People really want some easy automatic way to find out when a new version has been released and is ready for them to upgrade to. -- William -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
