On 09/07/15 06:33, Simon King wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Removing characters on trac has a positive side-effect: I was pointed
> to a ticket that was closed as duplicate of #5994. And the last serious work
> on #5994 was done 6 years ago.
>
> Unfortunately, I have marked it as "needs info" 6 years ago, an
There is a canonical "version without patchlevel" provided by the
sage_bootstrap library, nobody should re-implement "chopping off chars".
E.g. (note the edge case):
In [1]: import sys
In [2]: sys.path.append('build')
In [3]: from sage_bootstrap.package import Package
In [4]: Package('singular'
>
> I don't think that package-version.txt should be used as answer to
> package.version() in Sage. I consider this file to be build metadata,
> while package.version() should provide upstream's idea of the version
> number, using some function or data from the upstream sources.
>
Can't we ex
On 2015-09-06 20:33, Simon King wrote:
First question: Would you agree that all interfaces should return a
string that corresponds to the typical content of the
package-version.txt files?
No.
I don't think that package-version.txt should be used as answer to
package.version() in Sage. I consid
Hi!
Removing characters on trac has a positive side-effect: I was pointed
to a ticket that was closed as duplicate of #5994. And the last serious work
on #5994 was done 6 years ago.
Unfortunately, I have marked it as "needs info" 6 years ago, and
although I reminded the participants of the ticke
