Subject: Which platforms are being used for Maxima?
From: Bill Wood
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:52:08 -0500
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 09:38 -0400, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
. . .
> When Maxima starts up, it could load the current version number from a
> Web page somewhere, and notify the user if there is a newer version.
> The request should include the version being run, so we know what
> versions are still being run. This is useful functionality.
>
> We could then keep statistics on the version checks, keeping source IP
> (so as not to count each user many times) and version number.
Some of us are not ecstatic about conceptually local applications doing
Internet IO sub rosa.
-- Bill Wood