#5994: singular.version() yields an error when first called, has no doctest, and
has a strange output imo
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 Reporter:  SimonKing   |       Owner:  was             
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new             
 Priority:  major       |   Milestone:  sage-4.0        
Component:  interfaces  |    Keywords:  singular version
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Comment(by AlexGhitza):

 Replying to [comment:3 SimonKing]:
 >
 > "Upstream" answered, and it seems that the problem is fixed in the
 official release.
 >
 > I could verify that on the server in Oberwolfach, the error does not
 occur in Singular 3-1-0, but it ''does'' occur in Oberwolfach in Singular
 3-0-4 (as being part of Sage). Opinions?

 We can probably wait until after Sage Days 15 for this?

 > But there still remains the question if {{{singular.version()}}} ought
 to return a tuple of integers, rather than a lengthy string with all build
 informations.

 My personal preference would be for it to return a tuple of integers, but
 we could give it an optional argument {{{with_build_info=True}}} (or
 {{{verbatim=True}}} or something similar) to make it return the lengthy
 string.

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