I find the current behaviour (which is fairly new) rather clear on this topic:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Sage Version 4.1.1.rc0, Release Date: 2009-07-29 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** * * * Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. * * * ********************************************************************** Best, Alex On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > I think any development release should clearly state it is a development > release i.e. in big letters it comes up > > > WARNING - THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE FOR DEVELOPERS > WARNING - DO NOT TRUST ANY RESULTS FROM THIS > > I don't know if we could do that automatically, based on the name of the > build directory. i.e. if it contains 'rc0', 'rc1', 'rc2', 'alpha0', > 'alpha1', then such a warning was automatically generated. > > What do people think of that idea? If its felt useful, I could create a > Trac ticket for it. As for how to implement it, I am less sure, as I > don't know enough about the build process. But it can't be rocket > science to come up with some solution to this. (Anyway, I would not be > surprised if some Sage developer was a rocket scientist!) > > > > Dave > > > > -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
