#14384: Support version number literals.
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Reporter: robertwb | Owner: jason
Type: enhancement | Status: positive_review
Priority: major | Milestone:
sage-duplicate/invalid/wontfix
Component: misc | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers: David Roe
Authors: Robert Bradshaw | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by kini):
Apparently you have a rather authoritative-sounding voice, Jason :P
As for the rationale for doing this, well, I can recall approximately the
conversation which led to this patch:
>Should we tag our releases as just bare numbers like 5.9 or should we put
a v in front like v5.9?
>Well, I think it should be just 5.9 since I'm going to type stuff like
`vanilla(5.9)` into the Sage prompt and expect it to just work.
>Is it that much trouble to write `vanilla('v5.9')`... wait, you're going
to call `vanilla` with a ''float''?
>Yes! Why not?
>Well then what about 4.7.2? That isn't a float...
>True. But it could be an MPFR real! *hack hack*
>!?
>Behold, the first git-based trac ticket!
By the way, Jeroen, I noticed you semi-recently (8 months ago) merged a
ticket by pulling a branch rather than applying a patch: #418. So while
this might be the first git-based ticket, it's not the first pull request
to the modern Sage codebase. Does this mean we could already be using a
pull-request based model right now, for the Sage library at least? :)
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