[sage-devel] Re: Virtualbox image

2008-09-06 Thread Tom Boothby
I just bought a new laptop, and I'm having driver troubles. I'll test it if you make it. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Does anyone have an already-built virtualbox image of sage? > > If not, is there interest? I'm building one right now. > > Thanks, >

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
Here is a better definition: def float(x,e,b): return RealField(axiom('precision()$Float'))(x)*b^e On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Bill Page wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >>> >>> I still find the following b

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Bill Page wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: >> >> I still find the following behavior much worse than the current >> behavior (which is why I made the change): >> >> sage: axiom(2.123) >> float(156649750673941527080,-66,2) >> >> That's no

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > Another data point: > sage: str(maxima(1/2)).strip() > '1\r\n -\r\n > 2' > Oh, groan! It's bad enough that Sage rejects the Python convention concerning repr but this is terrible. :-( >

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, > After sending this email I reviewed some of the previous messages > about the use of repr in Sage. One way of summarizing this is that > Sage does not actually follow the usual Python convention here (in > spite of my examples :-). Yes, Sage has consciously rejected that convention. >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> >> #4028: Mike Hansen: doctest and improve sage/interfaces/axiom.py >> [Reviewed by Michael Abshoff] > > I have looked carefully at the changes to 'axiom.py' by Mike Hansen > and I think there is a serious problem: The change relating to > displa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:06 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > So expect rc0 with hopefully most of the above fixed. It has been > a little over 2 weeks since 3.1.1, so we need to get this release > out of the door. > > Sources and a sage.math only binary is in > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabsho

[sage-devel] Re: RPy2 on horizon...

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 6, 3:48 pm, Andrzej Giniewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hi, > RPy2 is almost out - Any idea about the timeframe? > it would have lots of useful stuff from user view > (data frames, formulas, works better with newer R versions) but also > from interface view (I've heard that the

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 6, 6:15 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Sep, 01:35, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, this does not look familiar, but we used to have a gcc 4.3.1 > > patch that has been allegedly merged upstream. I am using gcc 4.2.4 on > > Solaris at the moment an

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.rc0 released

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
Oh yeah, my shortlist for 3.1.2.final: #3476: save timeit information with sage -t -timeit #3711: notebook -- folder of worksheets not properly saved #3918: notebook -- MAJOR BUG involving uploading file from URL #3957: notebook -- major bug in opening notebooks and plots #4055: serious bug in p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 7 Sep, 01:35, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 6, 5:18 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sage-3.1.2.alpha4/local/include/python2.5 -c ttconv/pprdrv_tt2.cpp -o > > build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4u-2.5/ttconv/pprdrv_tt2.o > > cc1plus: warning: command line option "

[sage-devel] Sage 3.1.2.rc0 released

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
Oops, this took a while longer than planned, but here it is. #3984 is still unresolved and I spend way too much time not being able to fix that segfault on Itanium. Plenty of fixes and all but the ATLAS updates are in. The sources and binaries are in the usual place: http://sage.math.washington.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 6, 5:18 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Sep, 00:46, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 6, 4:30 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > Hi Micheal > > > > > > I noticed there were some Solaris fixes, so I thought I'd try a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 7 Sep, 00:46, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 6, 4:30 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Dave, Hi Micheal > > > I noticed there were some Solaris fixes, so I thought I'd try and > > report. Basically 'matplotlib' fails to build, as one of its > > dependenc

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 6, 4:30 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Sep, 14:06, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello folks, > > > this is alpha4 and more progress toward the final 3.1.2. As some > > people have noticed this release is getting larger than the original > > 3.1, but

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.1.2.alpha4 released

2008-09-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 2 Sep, 14:06, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > this is alpha4 and more progress toward the final 3.1.2. As some > people have noticed this release is getting larger than the original > 3.1, but I guess such is life. THe m4ri issues have been sorted out, > but there are s

[sage-devel] Re: Patch against eclib to allow using gmake

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 6, 4:02 pm, "Arnaud Bergeron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/6 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On Sep 6, 12:02 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear Arnaud, > > > Hi, > > >> This is really a sage building issue so should be taken to > >> sage-support or

[sage-devel] Re: Patch against eclib to allow using gmake

2008-09-06 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
2008/9/6 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Sep 6, 12:02 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear Arnaud, > > Hi, > >> This is really a sage building issue so should be taken to >> sage-support or sage-devel. >> >> As it happens I think that the change you suggest is already par

[sage-devel] RPy2 on horizon...

2008-09-06 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi, RPy2 is almost out - it would have lots of useful stuff from user view (data frames, formulas, works better with newer R versions) but also from interface view (I've heard that there will be "major memory refresh" with about half of it used for Python/R objects and also environments allowing

[sage-devel] Re: Patch against eclib to allow using gmake

2008-09-06 Thread mabshoff
On Sep 6, 12:02 pm, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Arnaud, Hi, > This is really a sage building issue so should be taken to > sage-support or sage-devel. > > As it happens I think that the change you suggest is already part of > one of the patches athttp://trac.sagemath.org/s

[sage-devel] Re: Patch against eclib to allow using gmake

2008-09-06 Thread John Cremona
Dear Arnaud, This is really a sage building issue so should be taken to sage-support or sage-devel. As it happens I think that the change you suggest is already part of one of the patches at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3358 (the *ungnu* one), so if you want to get this change incor

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Fortran names in unparse

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > >> >> sage: axiom(maxima('1/2')) >> >> 1 >> >> - >> >> 2 >> >> sage: maxima(axiom('1/2')) >> >> -1 >> > The only reason these examples work is by chance. The current >> > code was not designed to work this way, and this approach would >>

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Fortran names in unparse

2008-09-06 Thread Martin Albrecht
> >> sage: axiom(maxima('1/2')) > >> 1 > >> - > >> 2 > >> sage: maxima(axiom('1/2')) > >> -1 > > The only reason these examples work is by chance. The current > > code was not designed to work this way, and this approach would > > only work in general for the simplest of examples (such as inte

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: Fortran names in unparse

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Page
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > > Hello, > >> I think it is not so bad since by defining the function float >> appropriately this can easily parse this into a Sage floating point. >> If this really is inconvenient then the >> >>> The linear representation of the object is muc

[sage-devel] Re: precision() in pari

2008-09-06 Thread John Cremona
That's great, Alex, I also spent a lot of yesterday looking at the same code. I look forward to seeing your patch and will test it on both 32 and 64 bit machines. John 2008/9/5 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:48 PM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 2

[sage-devel] Re: precision() in pari

2008-09-06 Thread Alex Ghitza
Hi John, I am about to put up a patch at #4064 (I'm adding a couple more doctests). It is not perfect (it does not have proper doctests for 64 bit machines since I don't have access to one), but I hope we can make it work soon. Basically, I spent two days reading the libs/pari code and despairi