Pop-up windows about upgrades are really annoying. But a simple text
output of the sort described, that doesn't ask for any input, would be
a good idea I think.
-M.Hampton
On May 18, 11:18 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This is a discussion of update/upgrade notification for
William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
This is a discussion of update/upgrade notification for SAGE for normal users.
Feel free to read it and share your thoughts.
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Another suggestion I have, automatic notification of major new
version
How would this work? If sagemath was down or there wasn't a net connection
would there be a weird error? Would it confuse users who could not update
(eg, students using the SAGE notebook in a lab)?
On 5/18/07, Nick Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On May 18, 2007, at 11:28 AM, William Stein wrote:
On 5/18/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would it confuse users who could not update
(eg, students using the SAGE notebook in a lab)?
The message would be invisible to notebook users. (??)
As more and more (non-dev) users will
On 5/18/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would this work? If sagemath was down or there wasn't a net connection
would there be a weird error?
No. It would try to contact sagemath once during each 1 week period. If
during that time it found that an upgrade is available, it would
On May 18, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Nick Alexander wrote:
One way to make notifications less obtrusive is to make them
omnipresent. That is, the banner could always read
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| SAGE Version 2.5.alpha2, Release Date: 2007-05-02
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: Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: May 18, 2007 11:29 AM
Subject: [sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?
To: sage-devel@googlegroups.com
On May 18, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Nick Alexander wrote:
One way to make notifications less obtrusive is to make them
omnipresent
I'm worried that this check is going to slow down a developer
working on a cloned copy. In this case, one is probably not interested
in updating. Could this auto-update be turned off by default in all clones?
William Stein wrote:
On 5/18/07, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How would
On May 18, 10:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I HATE it when software phones home. There should be, at least, a config
entry available to disable this behavior. And IMO, it should be disabled by
default.
Yes, Opt in is the way to go. Anything else is just plain EVIL(tm).
The other
I would like to register to use sage.
Marshall Hampton,
SAGE user #1
:)
On May 18, 3:47 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dortmund.de wrote:
On May 18, 10:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I HATE it when software phones home. There should be, at least, a config
entry available to disable
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