I think that the upgrade path (i.e. "sage -upgrade") is best left to developers, and others should just download a complete fresh version. I am saying this from experience (and despite being a developer -- maybe I need an upgrade myself!). Whenever I have tried to upgrade, I have found (1) it takes just as long both on downloading and in building; (2) the new version does not work; and (3) you have now lost your old working version. This is probably unduly pessimistic, but that has been my experience! Of course you might have a better time.
John Cremona On Feb 22, 8:09 pm, Dana Ernst <[email protected]> wrote: > When a new version of Sage is released, what is the most efficient way to > upgrade? (I'm running OSX 10.6.) Are people using Mercurial to do this? If > so, can you provide a brief tutorial? (I have Mercurial installed and I know > the basics of working with the terminal.) > > Also, are the upgrades rolled out to sagenb.org immediately? > > Dana Ernst, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > Department of Mathematics > Plymouth State University > MSC 29, 17 High Street > Plymouth, NH 03264-1595 > > Email: [email protected] > Web Page:http://oz.plymouth.edu/~dcernst > Office: Hyde 312 -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
