Pablo Angulo wrote: > For me, it would be enough if the binaries for the previous versions > did not disappear from the mirrors, and big changes in SAGE came with > big changes in the version number. I could then tell my students to: > "use any version of SAGE starting with 4.1, but use SAGE>=4.2 at your > own risk" right at the begining of the course.
Is it not more obvious to call the >=4.2 'beta' versions, if that strategy is used. Virtually everyone knows a 'beta' version of software is subject to bugs. I am personally of the opinion that many of the problems found in release versions could have been caught earlier if a beta version was produced after the last release candidate, and that beta version was available for everyone for a month or so, before the final release was made. 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
