Re: [sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-10 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Niles, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Niles wrote: > Thanks; I just tried it out. Here are some minor comments: > > * The phrase "bleeding edge" still appears in the download directory > [1], and also in the readme file. > > * The large warning says the directory contains "builds", which lea

[sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-10 Thread Keshav Kini
What about calling them "development snapshots"? -Keshav Join us in #sagemath on irc.freenode.net ! -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-10 Thread Niles
Thanks; I just tried it out. Here are some minor comments: * The phrase "bleeding edge" still appears in the download directory [1], and also in the readme file. * The large warning says the directory contains "builds", which lead me to think that I was downloading a binary for my system (even th

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-09 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Jason, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > Perhaps: "unstable" or "nightly" or "latest alpha", or even "cutting edge". > The warning could still be big and bold (like it should be!). I have chosen "Development Release". Please test it out to see how usable it is. -- Regar

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-09 Thread John Cremona
I agree about bleeding edge. Cutting edge sounds bettwe, but this is only for a menu choice, so why not "development version"? As long as developers can find it easily (though I usually download from a link in an email anyway) and non-developers are gently discouraged from expecting this to be th

[sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-09 Thread Jason Grout
On 6/9/11 8:11 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Please see http://www.sagemath.org/download-latest.html which is linked from http://www.sagemath.org/download.html#DevelRelease On second thought, the page http://www.sagemath.org/download-latest.htm

[sage-devel] Re: Advertising Sage development versions on the website

2011-06-08 Thread kcrisman
Could be worth mentioning in the devel release announcements as well, with a suitable "beware" for delay. Boxen can be slow at times. On Jun 8, 11:44 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > The last development version of Sage is always mirrored, see for > examplehttp://boxen.math.washington.edu/sage/devel