On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > When Sage starts, it gives you the version and license, but not much else. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Sage Version 4.1.1, Release Date: 2009-08-14 | > | Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > I think it would be useful if some information about the system was > printed. Many requests for help show examples of code that does not > work, yet no information is given about the system. > > > I think it would be useful if it printed the following additional > information when Sage started in the banner > > * Whether built as 32 or 64-bit. > * Processor > * Output of 'uname -a' > * Amount of RAM > * Number of CPUs, cores and hardware threads > * Compiler Sage was built with.
I don't object much but I wonder if variable output should always be tested and I don't know how to test the banner display. If this is not voted for, I would like to see this as an option to the "version" command. > > This would have two uses > > 1) Anyone sending in bug reports would be more likely give information > about their system. > > 2) If you use Sage remotely, it would be good to have some idea what the > machine is like you are running on. > > On Solaris at least, it would be pretty easy to get all this > information. I doubt it would be hard on any OS. > > > Dave > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
