[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org website info #2

2008-07-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Jul 19, 11:38 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 19, 2:45 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On 18 Jul, 20:33, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 12) Once a Solaris port is done, try to get Blastwave and Sunfreeware > > to keep packages

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion merge, 3.0.6, 3.1 and 3.1.1

2008-07-19 Thread John Cremona
Thanks, Michael. Have a very good time at ISAAC! John 2008/7/19 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Jul 19, 8:16 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mabshoff wrote: >> > Hello folks, >> >> > due to the ssmod and the gfe2 bug in Sage we really want to have a >> > stable release ou

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM, q10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello: >> >> It has come to my attention that SAGE does not have a units-conversion >> program component (maybe it has; if it does, please show me). I >> recommend adding the GPLed unit conversion program cal

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org website info #2

2008-07-19 Thread mabshoff
On Jul 19, 2:45 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Jul, 20:33, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 12) Once a Solaris port is done, try to get Blastwave and Sunfreeware > to keep packages. I'm not sure if Blastware will, as I think they want > Solaris 8 packag

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-19 Thread mabshoff
On Jul 19, 3:39 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM, q10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello: > > > It has come to my attention that SAGE does not have a units-conversion > > program component (maybe it has; if it does, please show me).  I > > recom

[sage-devel] Re: Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-19 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM, q10 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello: > > It has come to my attention that SAGE does not have a units-conversion > program component (maybe it has; if it does, please show me). I > recommend adding the GPLed unit conversion program called ConvertAll > (http://

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion merge, 3.0.6, 3.1 and 3.1.1

2008-07-19 Thread mabshoff
On Jul 19, 7:24 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you say "Any new ticket should be a real blocker" I presume you > only actually mean tickets asking for resolution before 3.1.1?   I > recently created a new ticket which  can certainly wait until 3.1.1 > (it's not even a bug,

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion merge, 3.0.6, 3.1 and 3.1.1

2008-07-19 Thread mabshoff
On Jul 19, 8:16 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mabshoff wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > due to the ssmod and the gfe2 bug in Sage we really want to have a > > stable release out by Wednesday when William gives his talk at ISSAC. > > Since we don't want to cut it too short that means

[sage-devel] Suggestion components to add onto SAGE

2008-07-19 Thread q10
Hello: It has come to my attention that SAGE does not have a units-conversion program component (maybe it has; if it does, please show me). I recommend adding the GPLed unit conversion program called ConvertAll (http://www.convertall.bellz.org/) I believe it is written with Python, so integrati

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Pablo De Napoli
> > * getting rid of functions which implicitly assume left/right and making > > those functions explicitly say what they are returning, since, for > > example, a vast majority of linear algebra people would assume kernel() > > is the right kernel, while apparently a sizable contingent of number >

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
Mike Hansen wrote: >> * introduction of eigen* functions > > +1 definitely. > >> * changing left/right_* functions to *_left/right to make tab completion >> and finding the functions much easier. > > The *_left and *_right are easier to find under tab completion, but > they are much uglier when

[sage-devel] sage + py.test fails

2008-07-19 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, when testing sage 3.0.5 using py.test, sage fails to import, because it's using input (?) stream's write and flush methods: def __init__(self,stream,fallback): if not hasattr(stream,'write') or not hasattr(stream,'flush'): stream = fallback self.stream = strea

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Hansen
> * introduction of eigen* functions +1 definitely. > * changing left/right_* functions to *_left/right to make tab completion > and finding the functions much easier. The *_left and *_right are easier to find under tab completion, but they are much uglier when reading code. I don't understand

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > They installed fine and I'm testing it out now. Just to confirm: > in matrix2 you have > eigenspaces_left, eigenspaces_right, > eigenvalues_left, eigenvalues_right, Actually, there should be only eigenvalues(). There should also be eigenvectors_right/left and eigenmatrix_ri

[sage-devel] marketing strategy [was: sagemath.org website info #2]

2008-07-19 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, this sounds more than marketing for me, so i've changed the subject. On Jul 19, 11:45 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the homepage could be more search engine friendly, which > should help the rank on google. There are a lot of keywords, but I'm > not convinced the

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread David Joyner
They installed fine and I'm testing it out now. Just to confirm: in matrix2 you have eigenspaces_left, eigenspaces_right, eigenvalues_left, eigenvalues_right, kernel_left, kernel_right, image_left (= row_space), image_right (=column_space), but in functional and matrix_rational_dense, you only hav

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > I think it's great that you are doing this. Does a patch exist yet? > I'd like to try it out. I put up a preliminary patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2816 The patch there depends on the patch at: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3654 I'll work

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.alpha0 released

2008-07-19 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi again, was trying to track that segfault in tachyon doctest, it happens during show(t) in "texture" example, that's in: t = Tachyon(camera_center=(2,5,4), look_at=(2,0,0), raydepth=6) t.light((10,3,4), 1, (1,1,1)) t.texture('mirror', ambient=0.05, diffuse=0.05, specular=.9, opacity=0.9, color

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > I think it's great that you are doing this. Does a patch exist yet? > I'd like to try it out. Yes, on my computer. The documentation isn't there yet, though. I'll try to put up something today. Thanks, Jason > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jason Grout > <[EMAI

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion merge, 3.0.6, 3.1 and 3.1.1

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
mabshoff wrote: > Hello folks, > > due to the ssmod and the gfe2 bug in Sage we really want to have a > stable release out by Wednesday when William gives his talk at ISSAC. > Since we don't want to cut it too short that means that I just moved > all but the above two tickets to 3.1.1. Any new ti

[sage-devel] Re: linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread David Joyner
I think it's great that you are doing this. Does a patch exist yet? I'd like to try it out. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been working on writing eigenvalue/eigenvector functions, as > mentioned here: > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/

[sage-devel] linear algebra functions

2008-07-19 Thread Jason Grout
I've been working on writing eigenvalue/eigenvector functions, as mentioned here: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c8d2001f2b19a9bc/2585039efd2fbd2f?lnk=gst&q=kernel#2585039efd2fbd2f Here is the interface as it now stands. Does anyone have any comments or questio

[sage-devel] matrices

2008-07-19 Thread John Cremona
Puzzle question: find a matrix with rank 0 but determinant 1: sage: type(M) sage: M.rank() 0 sage: M.determinant() 1.00 Answer: M is 0x0: sage: M [] sage: [M.nrows(), M.ncols()] [0, 0] Now I am happy with all that (since I am computing regulators of elliptic curves which may have

[sage-devel] Re: Coercion merge, 3.0.6, 3.1 and 3.1.1

2008-07-19 Thread John Cremona
When you say "Any new ticket should be a real blocker" I presume you only actually mean tickets asking for resolution before 3.1.1? I recently created a new ticket which can certainly wait until 3.1.1 (it's not even a bug, but a new feature). John 2008/7/19 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > H

[sage-devel] Blogs

2008-07-19 Thread William Stein
Hi, All the students working fulltime on Sage this summer for me are blogging about their work. I've put links to all their blogs here: http://wiki.wstein.org/2008/summer/employ Feel free to read them, give feedback, etc. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics

[sage-devel] Coercion merge, 3.0.6, 3.1 and 3.1.1

2008-07-19 Thread mabshoff
Hello folks, due to the ssmod and the gfe2 bug in Sage we really want to have a stable release out by Wednesday when William gives his talk at ISSAC. Since we don't want to cut it too short that means that I just moved all but the above two tickets to 3.1.1. Any new ticket should be a real blocke

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.alpha0 released

2008-07-19 Thread mabshoff
On Jul 19, 6:17 am, "Andrzej Giniewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > oh, and yes - I built it from source Hi Andrzej, any kind of seemingly Heisenbug that was hard/impossible to reproduce has bitten us in the ass down the road, so everybody please report any seemingly inconsequential or random

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.alpha0 released

2008-07-19 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
oh, and yes - I built it from source --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-dev

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.alpha0 released

2008-07-19 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Andrzej Giniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So... > >> I can't replicate this segfault on either OS X or Linux. Could you remind >> me of precisely what hardware/OS you're using and whether or not you >> built from source or used a pre-compiled binary. > > I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.6.alpha0 released

2008-07-19 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
So... > I can't replicate this segfault on either OS X or Linux. Could you remind > me of precisely what hardware/OS you're using and whether or not you > built from source or used a pre-compiled binary. It's 32 bit Arch Linux current, GCC 4.3.1 (patched to snapshot from 2008 06 26), GlibC 2.8

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org website info #2

2008-07-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Jul 19, 10:56 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of link from Warwick University did you have in mind? On checking, I don't see a 'links' page at Warwick. But many university departments have a page which has links to sites that might interest their visitors. For exa

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org website info #2

2008-07-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 18 Jul, 20:33, "Harald Schilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sage folks, as promised in my last website posting [1], here a > bit more how things evolved. I think the homepage could be more search engine friendly, which should help the rank on google. There are a lot of keywords, but I'm