#6505: [with patch, needs review] Sage banner: include warning if a prerelease
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Reporter: jhpalmieri | Owner: jhpalmieri
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: trivial | Milestone: sage-4.1.1
Component: misc | Keywords:
Reviewer: | Author: John Palmieri
Merged: |
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From [http://groups.google.com/group/sage-
devel/browse_frm/thread/b3e57f934ee83c79 sage-devel]:
{{{
I just noticed an old thread, where a user had problems on squite,
making his own version of some packages with an alpha, heta or rc
release of Sage.
It would be good if alpha/beta/rc releases always showed a message that
they were pre-release versions for developers and not considered stable.
If there was some automatic way of making this happen, it would avoid
the risk of someone forgetting to add or delete a file.
}}}
This patch should do this. To fully test, make a source distribution of
Sage using sage-sdist. To partially test, in Sage, do
{{{
sage: sage.version.version
'4.1.rc1'
sage: print sage.misc.banner.banner_text()
----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sage Version 4.1.rc1, Release Date: 2009-07-07 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
| |
| Note: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------------
sage: sage.version.version = '4.1'
sage: print sage.misc.banner.banner_text()
----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sage Version 4.1, Release Date: 2009-07-07 |
| Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. |
----------------------------------------------------------------------
}}}
I believe that when a Sage distribution is created, the string from
{{{banner_text()}}} is printed into the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-
banner (see SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-sdist). So I think this patch will
do what was requested.
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