On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, YannLC <yannlaiglecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear sage-devel, > > I made a small spkg in ticket #7239 which just received a positive > review. > Some apllications in #7240 are following the same way. > > The package contains the list of prime factors occuring in > numbers of the form p^k-1 with p<13 and small k which can be useful > e.g. for finite field stuff. > > If this second patch is accepted, it will add a warning the first time > the user tries to test the primitivity of a polynomial over a field of > small characteristic (2,3,5,7 or 11) but big cardinality ( > 2**100 ). > The warning is an advertisement for the optional spkg in #7239. > > My first question is: in general, do you find it reasonable to make > such an advertisement?
Yes, but do it using the verbose command, so that a user can do "set_verbose(-1)" if they don't want to see your ad. > Secondly, citing the reviewer: > " > cremona: > But why don't we (you!) put a case to sage-devel for including this > spkg as standard? It's only another 492837 bytes, and the cremona > database is 78M. The cremona database is 78MB, but it is *not* standard. So that's no argument. That said, it is probably reasonable to make your package standard. However, there is a waiting period for that, and a vote. William > " > > Thoughts? > > -- > 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 > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
