#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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Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by jmantysalo):
Replying to [comment:26 SimonKing]:
> Slight problem: The patching level usually is not indicated by a number
but by "p" plus a number. So, providing the version as a list of integers
is perhaps not what we want. And it is not good, I think, if the default
output is a list of integers and the verbose output is a totally different
type, namely a string.
>
> From that perspective, the r-output is better.
True.
As a system admin I should be able to answer fast to questions "What is
the version of ... in our server ...?". For that it is not so important
what is the format. But it gives a little unprofessional feeling if I get
`(1,2,3)` from `foo.version()` and `[1,2,3]` from `bar.version()`.
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