On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, François Bissey > <f.r.bis...@massey.ac.nz> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Newer sympy has a bundled copy of mpmath, what causes several >>> problems in my sagemath package. I was in vacation during most of >>> Mandriva 2010.1 freeze, and did not fully test the package for some >>> time, but I am working on an update for it; basically an 's/import >>> mpmath/import sympy.mpmath as mpmath/', but would like to know what >>> would be the better approach. (just letting the code use both leads to >>> SEGvs). >>> >>> The new sagemath package will conflict with >>> python-mpmath-0.14-1mdv2010.1 (forcing it to be uninstalled), because >>> the sympy is python-sympy-0.6.7-1mdv2010.1. >>> >> Hi Paulo, >> >> that will probably be a pain for us in gentoo as well. >> At the moment we are sticking with sympy-0.6.6 as >> sympy-0.6.7 gives us trouble. The gentoo philosophy >> at this point will be to remove mpmath from sympy and >> make it a requirement. But I haven't been actively working >> on that. > > Yes, I run into similar problems when trying to upgrade sympy in Sage. > > We ship our own version of mpmath, because different versions of > mpmath are not compatible with each other (e.g. you can't just depend > on mpmath externaly, there are little things that break). However, we > do try to update mpmath in sympy, for example the latest git sympy is > using the latest release of mpmath. But you can see the related > commits, that it's not as trivial as just replacing the code. > > If you know any solution, it'd be absolutely awesome. > > One solution that I can think of is to drop python2.4 support, and use > relative imports in sympy to use our own versin of mpmath, that is > tested and works. That way it should not interfere with the other > installation of mpmath, that the user might have (in Sage or else). > > Ondrej
Alternatively you could rename the version of mpmath that you include in sympy, e.g., call it mpmath_sympy - William > > -- > 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 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
