IMHO there shouldn't be a warning printed when you can compute the correct answer without the optional package. Every computation can be sped up with a table of pre-computed values. The documentation should, of course, mention that there is an optional spkg that can be used.
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:52:24 AM UTC, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > Is there any way to do this? I seem to remember seeing something like > is_package_installed in module_list.py. > Is it completely forbidden to have such ideas? > For #8335, we'd like to use the Cunningham table, but it's currently an > optional package, so if you try to use them, Sage will issue a warning > (once) and then fallback to other methods for factorization so the result > will be correct, but you'll get one failing doctest. > Another solution is to merge #7240 so that the Cunningham table is > standard... > > Cheers, > JP > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.