Re: [sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Alex Ghitza wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:50:18 -0800, William Stein 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

Re: [sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:50:18 -0800, William Stein 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

[sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-15 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 15, 7:50 pm, William Stein wrote: >   +1 to the phone home idea To elaborate a bit more on that, there are two methods. First, one that just informs the user of a new release ("the current release is , but yours is ") - We only get activity data on that certain page on the website, but sin

Re: [sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-15 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Feb 14, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > >> On Feb 14, 12:47 pm, David Kirkby 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

Re: [sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 14, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: On Feb 14, 12:47 pm, David Kirkby 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 t

[sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 14, 12:47 pm, David Kirkby 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

[sage-support] Re: sagemath installs on ubuntu karmic, but abends on simple problem

2010-02-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 14, 10:46 am, Burcin Erocal wrote: > Can we get Debian/Ubuntu to move these packages to a less visible > repository... I already complained rather long ago, it's just that they have pulled experimental packages into the multiverse repository or something like that. I hope it will drop out