On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:50:18 -0800, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -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.
Note that some of the major software that does this also allows you to turn it off (I'm thinking of Firefox here). Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- 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
