Le 16/01/2012 21:09, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit :
On 2012-01-16 16:58, daveloeffler wrote:
so there's always a canonical latest beta
which would be the natural one to use for general development work and
general bug-reporting?
But there is a canonical "latest beta" and in my post I mentioned
three(!) independent ways to find it. I really don't understand where
all the confusion comes from.
Let's take a pure innocent : me, yesterday morning (hence before your
explanations).
I wanted to have a look at the deps file in 5.0-something ; so I went to
where I found sage-4.8.alpha6, and got up in the directory hierarchy (to
find something, look where you found something approaching), which is:
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/release/
There I found a few things:
1. a bunch of very old directories ;
2. a few things about sage-4.8, and notably a 4.8.rc0 and 4.8.rc1 which
already made my eyebrows ;
3. a bunch of sage-5.0 directories, and there I was fully lost :
a. there is a sage-5.0/ (so a final!) dating back to the 5th of this
month ;
b. PREalpha things -- I always thought there was
development(unnumbered)-alpha(numbered)-beta(numbered)-rc(numbered)-final(one).
Seeing a PREalpha was quite disturbing ;
c. additionally, the beta had an older date than the last prealpha,
which is why I used prealpha2.
4. ah, yes, there was a README, but it didn't seem related to what was
in there, something which is pretty usual, and explains why I only read
them when I'm desperate. Let me add that generally the more pressing the
name, the most outdated they are. Beware of
README_BEFORE_ANYTHING_OR_YOU_WILL_SUFFER!
I hope that explains where some confusion can come from.
Snark on #sagemath
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