On Feb 14, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Harald Schilly wrote:
On Feb 14, 12:47 pm, David Kirkby <[email protected]> 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.org/version.html
This should happen once a day or every few days, in parallel on
startup because website might not work and hence delays startup time
and should be opt-out in case you have reasons to not check this.
Going through the webserver logs, this might additionally give us an
idea how many users are out there. This would require an UID, like
Firefox and many others do, too. They create a unique client ID number
for each installation. That id would be stored in ~/.sage and appended
to this request like verson.html?uid=hashcode
-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
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