#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: needs_info
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: interfaces | Resolution:
Keywords: singular version help.cnf | Merged in:
Authors: William Stein | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
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Comment (by jmantysalo):
Replying to [comment:24 SimonKing]:
> To repeat my questions:
>
> - How important is it to have doc tests that remain valid if the
Singular version changes?
>
> My answer: We could at least have a test marked random. In that way, we
at least make sure that there is no error raised.
+1
> My suggestion is: Use the SHORT version string by default, but provide
singular_version and singular.version with an optional "verbose=False"
argument, that allows to obtain the lengthy version string. And of course
fix the error.
Sounds good. Somehow the output of `pari.version()` seems best for me.
Maybe this could also be documented in
http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/packaging.html#package-
versioning as the recommended way to have `*.version()` commands?
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