I guess I will have to stick with it for a while, as the ".fonts" works anyway, albeit the browser still cannot utilize the already installed fonts in 3.6a. It might be worthy for me to run a local Sage Notebook with jsMath 3.3c.
I see your rationale in upholding the bundling. One of the solutions might be unifying all the distributions so that we do not have duplicated efforts, yet that does sound neither viable nor reasonable. What Sage is doing for sure will have fundamental impact, almost divine impact, yet, before that is finalized, we have to bide our time and be patient., so we have to live on the cutting-edge :) I hope that you do not mind a short reply like this. Sincerely, Jing On Feb 16, 9:37 pm, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de> wrote: > On Feb 16, 11:11 am, Jzmer <jzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Same for me to feel sorry for my own late reply --- I thought nobody > > is gonna answer this, but I am surprised that you still remember all > > this 5 days later. Some experiment that you have suggested does churn > > out some interesting result. I checked with Sage 3.3.rc0, which ships > > jsMath v3.6a and <http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Franz.Vesely/cp_tut/ > > nol2/new/c0pr_s0pr.html>, which ships jsMath v3.3c . It turns out > > that, when I did "mv ~/.fonts ~/fonts" (and did restart Firefox 3.0.6) > > the "Use Native TeX Fonts" option could be enabled on the univie > > website, but not on sagenb (jsMath v3.6a). Other than that I tried > > Epiphany 2.24.3 with gecko, which still failed to work with sagenb's > > jsMath v3.6a though. > > Hmm, not sure what is at fault here, but since you have more than one > version of jsmath installed it might contribute to the problem. > > > Based on the aboved experiment, I would suggest the issue should be > > with jsMath but not Firefox, as the jsMath with lower version number > > works out well. Hence, based on Tim's Debian packaging effort, I would > > say that it is probably more worthwhile not to ship sage a gigantic > > bundle, but as individual packages. > > This has been discussed over and over again and it plainly doesn't > work. The Sage in Debian does not pass doctests, not even close. In > general the combinatorial explosion of configurations to debug is way > too large and it is next to impossible to find any distribution where > the version numbers even remotely match. We updated to GAP 4.4.12 in > Sage 3.3 and the doctests involving GAP will in certain files be > broken with any previous GAP release. If you used the Debian packages > for Singular Sage won't work since we patch NTL and when those NTL > libs come in conflict either Sage doesn't compile or Singular blows > up. I can go on and on and on about similar issues and that is only > the stuff I know about right on top of my head. I have never taken the > time to go out and do dumb things to break Sage :) > > In the near future we plan to upgrade to a svn release of the > development version of pari and then closely track it as bugs we > report are often only fixed in pari-2.4.3svn. There is *no* way any > distribution can track this without potentially breaking other code > dependent on pari and you will be royally screwed if you want to use > pari 2.3.4 in Sage (the stable release at this point) since Sage won't > even build. We will fix all in tree code that gets broken with the new > pari-svn and push it back upstream, but until that shows up in a > distribution we will long have shipped Sage 4.0. > > The way we do it is the only way and I have doubts that any > distribution packaged Sage will even be able to keep up with the > official release given that I spend working full time as the Sage > release manager :) > > > Hope that this helps. > > > Sincerely, > > > Jing > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
