#9434: Stop greping for a non-existent sage-banner
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: drkirkby
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: build | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:26 leif]:
> > One other thing, that I'll mention though this is perhaps not the best
ticket for it, is #8447, which was a suggestion of mine to detect when
the Sage version is old. Having the release date stored as seconds since
the Epoch (in addition to a human friendly way), would enable us to detect
when Sage is old. So I suggest anywhere one adds a release date, we bear
that in mind.
>
> Detecting such is easier with the date format we have. ;-)
>
> But I'm strongly against nagging or annoying users, especially since the
default is to print the Sage banner when Sage starts up, which shows the
release date.
>
If we nagged users their version of Sage was very old, we would not have
the problems there are with the Debian distribution, and some other
distributions of Sage. I think more than a year old and you do seriously
need to nag them!
Dave
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