Hi John,
On Dec 31, 10:32 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good work! > > Can I change the second sentence of this text please? > > > John Cremona's programs for enumerating and computating with elliptic > > curves defined over the rational numbers. This is the culmination of > > over 30 years of hard work and careful polish. > > It's more like 25... and since I am still fixing bugs I find the > "careful polish" a little embarrassing (but thank you, William!) :) - I changed that sentence to John Cremona's programs for enumerating and computating with elliptic curves defined over the rational numbers. This is the culmination of over 25 years of hard work. Feel free to send me an extended description if there is a better one. > John I am currently [finally] diffing all the changes for the cygwin build I did out of my two Cygwin build trees. I am doing the right thing and also fixing the make [very]clean targets and so on, so this will take a while. I will post some patches later and also merge them into the eclib.spkg. You can then decide if you just want to take eclib-20071231.p0.spkg or apply the patches manually. In addition I also discovered that on FreeBSD you really need gmake to build the library [due to FOO ?=BLAS operators which BSD's make doesn't understand]. But I will merge a fix for that in spkg-install once we start to officially support FreeBSD around the 2.10.x timeframe. Cheers, Michael > On 31/12/2007, mabshoff > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > since I am currently testing out the latest eclib (see #1058) I am > > rewriting the SPKG.txt to reflect some of the issue raised in the > > "Most Sage spkg's are out of date!" thread. The SPKG.txt is now > > written in wiki text and has a couple standard sections: > > > [begin example] > > = eclib [i.e. name of spkg] = > > > == Description == > > > John Cremona's programs for enumerating and computating with elliptic > > curves defined over the rational numbers. This is the culmination of > > over 30 years of hard work and careful polish. > > > == Maintainers == > > > * William Stein > > * John Cremona > > * Ralph Philip Weinmann > > * Michael Abshoff > > > == Upstream Contact == > > > * Author: John Cremona > > * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Website:http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~masgaj/mwrank/index.html Since John mentioned the dependencies with Ismail in the other thread I also think we should list dependencies in the SPKG.txt. In case of eclib that would be: == Dependencies == * gmp * pari * NTL > > == Distribution == > > > === Padus === > > * Contact: Ismail Dönmez > > * EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Website: N/A > > > == Changelog == > > > === eclib-20071231 (John Cremona) === > > > * renamed to eclib > > * allows elliptic curves as input with rational (as opposed to just > > integer) coefficients. > > > === cremona-20071219.p1 (Michael Abshoff) === > > > * patch to fix "Internal error: can't free this _ntl_gbigint" (John > > Cremona) > > > === cremona-20071219.p0 (John Cremona) === > > > * fix main Makefile mismerge (Michael Abshoff) > > * add missing export to g0n/Makefile (John Cremona) > > * fix permission issue (Michael Abshoff) > > > === cremona-20071219 (John Cremona) === > > > * update to latest source > > * fix mwrank error on non-minimal curves (#1233) > > > === cremona-20071124.p4 (Michael Abshoff) === > > > * apply John Cremoan's second patch for #1403 > > * delete $SAGE_LOCAL/include/mwrank (#1410) > > * strip the mwrank binaries and link dynamically (#1410) > > * delete $SAGE_LOCAL/lib/libmwrank.[so|dylib] (#1410) > > > === cremona-20071124.p3 (Michael Abshoff) === > > > * apply John Cremoan's patch for #1403 > > * fix #1256, i.e. remove the now obsolete mwrank.spkg > > > === previous versions === > > > * lost to history > > [end example] > > > I pasted the verbatim text file intohttp://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/eclib > > > Is there anything missing? Should anything be removed? > > > But now there are a couple issues we need to resolve: > > > * How do we keep SPKG.txt and the wiki page in sync? In an ideal world > > we would just copy over the updated SPKG.txt into the wiki and be done > > with it. But people will edit the wiki page, i.e. to add contact info > > or correct issues. One way would be for the maintainers to subscribe > > to the pages of the spkgs they handle and sync it manually. Since the > > wiki preserves all edits and offers an interface to diff this should > > be relatively easy. > > > * We currently have two couple pages in the wiki that list spkgs: > > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/standard_packages_available_for_SAGE > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/Sage_Spkg_Tracking > > > I think both should be merged into one page while preserving the info > > from both pages. "standard_packages_available_for_SAGE" is slightly > > older than "Sage_Spkg_Tracking", but I llike the format of > > "Sage_Spkg_Tracking" better. It also has all current components > > listed. > > > * We would potentially have two wiki pages for each spkg. Take for > > example Givaro. We have a page at > > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/Givaro > > > That page lists some examples and compares the performance of GF(2^8) > > to Magma. That information shouldn't be in SPKG.txt and the example > > section could potentially be expanded. > > > The not yet existing page at > > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/spkg/Givaro > > > on the other hand would then contain a much more technical changelog. > > > I think that we also should merge both pages for each spkg into some > > part of the manual. It is possible to export wiki pages to latex which > > in turn then can be stuck into some part like the developer's manual. > > We should do that via some script so that prior to a release somebody > > can execute that script. If there is the need to do something manual > > it won't happen. > > > Thought? Ideas? > > > Cheers, > > > Michael > > -- > John Cremona --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
