[sage-devel] MSRI SAGE Days on Algebraic Geometry this March

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
Hi! There's going to be a surprise Sage Days at MSRI this March 2009 on Algebraic Geometry. See http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/502/show_workshop for the preliminary web page. Funding is available. William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics Univers

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Georg, > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Georg Muntingh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Minh, >> >> Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts to Planet Sage, >> http://planet.sagemath.org/ ? > > OK, I admit

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Georg, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Georg Muntingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Minh, > > Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts to Planet Sage, > http://planet.sagemath.org/ ? OK, I admit it: I'm too lazy to shamelessly promote myself :-) I've known about http://planet.sagem

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Georg S. Weber >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> having thought about it a bit more, I suddenly reali

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:22 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Georg S. Weber > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Hey guys, >> >> having thought about it a bit more, I suddenly realized that I came to >> like this ".spkg" extension. >> That's pure

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [SAGEdev] calling python from lisp

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 28, 2008, at 6:16 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > Forwarded. (It was sent to the wrong list.) > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:34 PM > Subject: [SAGEdev] calling python from lisp > To: > Cc: sage-devel <[EMAIL

[sage-devel] Fwd: [SAGEdev] calling python from lisp

2008-10-28 Thread David Joyner
Forwarded. (It was sent to the wrong list.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:34 PM Subject: [SAGEdev] calling python from lisp To: Cc: sage-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The following message is a courtesy copy of an articl

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:19 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> Thx, and very cool ;) >> Yes, sure, promote what you can, that's the reason for doing such a >> graphic. If you want a version with colors, i can hurry a bit - or if >> you need it in another size, tell me the measuremen

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 10:41AM -0700, Tim Abbott wrote: > The issue with tar is not on whether tar -xf foo.spkg works, but > whether tar -xf sage_scripts will complete the remainder of the > filename. I'm a bit confused with your arguments: I understand the parts about automated software tools nee

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Georg S. Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > having thought about it a bit more, I suddenly realized that I came to > like this ".spkg" extension. > That's purely emotional, of course. > But I'd surely miss it. Since this is a question about user

[sage-devel] Notebook dev problems

2008-10-28 Thread sonium
Hi, I'm new to sage development and have a few problems getting into it. As a start and to get better known to the code I wanted to implement http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4069 in the following way: 1. After login check if gears is installed 2. Store this, if so 3. Next time when the

[sage-devel] Re: Notebook dev problems

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
sonium wrote: > Hi, I'm new to sage development and have a few problems getting into > it. > > As a start and to get better known to the code I wanted to implement > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4069 in the following way: > > 1. After login check if gears is installed > 2. Store thi

[sage-devel] Re: Build error on SiCortex, mixing n32 and 62 ABIs

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Hart
How far away is the eMPIRe spkg? Isn't it about time we got that up? It should resolve a number of issues. Bill. On 27 Oct, 18:57, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 27, 11:47 am, mcelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Forgot to mention it is SAGE 3.1.4 > > > On Oct 27, 11:44 am, mcel

[sage-devel] Pasting to 'sage' in Terminal

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
Hi, all, I just ran into something weird, on Mac OS X using Terminal and sage. I pasted about 16 lines of sage code into Terminal, and it got really confused. The "echoed" character strings began to look like recursively escalating repeats of part of the last string: g3 = MS(eval(str(GG.

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hey guys, having thought about it a bit more, I suddenly realized that I came to like this ".spkg" extension. That's purely emotional, of course. But I'd surely miss it. (I heartily dislike that kind of superfluous ".spyx" extension, by the way, but that's another topic.) So -1 to my own propos

[sage-devel] Re: vote: including gp2c into sage?

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 12:51 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:10 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 8:55 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > On Oct 27

[sage-devel] Re: vote: including gp2c into sage?

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:10 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 28, 8:55 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Oct 27, 11:42 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> >>

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:41 , Tim Abbott wrote: > >> >> On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X (10.5); and >>> as Robert noted,

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 11:03 , mabshoff wrote: > On Oct 28, 10:58 am, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:41 , Tim Abbott wrote: >> >>> On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X

[sage-devel] Re: Passing argument -wthread to ipython

2008-10-28 Thread Jaap Spies
Jaap Spies wrote: > > Sage subshell$ ipython -Version > 0.8.2 > > But still > > Sage subshell$ sage -ipython -Version > 0.8.4 > sage: from enthought.mayavi.tools import mlab as M !! enthought.mayavi.tools.mlab is obsolete and has been replaced by !! !! enthought.mayavi.mlab. Please update yo

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 11:03 , mabshoff wrote: > On Oct 28, 10:58 am, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:41 , Tim Abbott wrote: >> >>> On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > > But in the end I agree with you on the "-1" on the proposed name > change. It is much less work to add instructions to the manual on how > to add association/completion for popular tools than changing the name > of the spkg extenion. > I couldn't agree more! Jaap --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: field extensions

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Page
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Martin Rubey wrote: > > Waldek Hebisch writes: > >> Martin Rubey wrote: >> > >> > Waldek Hebisch writes: >> > >> > > 2) I think we have all tools to do actual computations: we can >>> > factorise in algebraic extensions, so we can verify irreducibility >>> >

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 10:58 am, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:41 , Tim Abbott wrote: > > > > > On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X (10.5); and > >> as Robert noted, you can

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 10:41 , Tim Abbott wrote: > > On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X (10.5); and >> as Robert noted, you can teach the Finder with the Get-Info trick. > > The issue with tar is not on whet

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Abbott
On Oct 28, 1:07 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example "tar tf foo.spkg" works just fine on Mac OS X (10.5); and   > as Robert noted, you can teach the Finder with the Get-Info trick. The issue with tar is not on whether tar -xf foo.spkg works, but whether tar -xf sage_sc

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 04:03 , Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Oct 23, 11:09 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. >>How does it look without that? > > It was boring without it, that's the reason why I introduced it in the > first

[sage-devel] Re: Passing argument -wthread to ipython

2008-10-28 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: > Hi Jaap. > > (a) in 3.1.3 we updated ipython (#3659) - but there is already a > ipython 0.9.x is out there. > (b) in 3.1.4 we fixed some ipython startup issues - see #4291 > > Maybe you should try downgrading ipython? If that fixes it we have a > clear culprit :) > I tried

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 00:45 , Georg S. Weber wrote: > often I'd like to "just have a quick look" into a spkg. > Then I copy it, rename it, tell Mac OS X that YES, I do want to rename > it, > and then I can open it with a mouse click, and change into the created > directory. > Finally I am able to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha1 released

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 28, 2008, at 09:26 , mabshoff wrote: > On Oct 28, 8:00 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have opened a ticket (#4377) for this. > > Justin, > > note that William and I fixed the issue. The patch has been merged in > alpha2. Great! Thanks. I'll try it out. Justin -- Justin

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha1 released

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 8:00 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can reproduce this when I set MAKE to "make -j2" and run a "sage -b" > after touching some pyx file: > > Traceback (most recent call last): >   File "setup.py", line 1545, in >     cython(deps, ext_modules) >   File "setup.py", line

[sage-devel] Re: Passing argument -wthread to ipython

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 9:17 am, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With experimental package mayavi_2.2.1 installed the following works fine: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sage-3.1.2]$ ./sage -wthread > -- > | SAGE Version 3.1.2, Release Date:

[sage-devel] Passing argument -wthread to ipython

2008-10-28 Thread Jaap Spies
With experimental package mayavi_2.2.1 installed the following works fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sage-3.1.2]$ ./sage -wthread -- | SAGE Version 3.1.2, Release Date: 2008-09-16 | | Type notebook() for the GUI, an

[sage-devel] Re: a question on L-series for dirichlet characters....

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 8:58 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:26 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is an excellent idea.  Obviously, for every package Sage > > includes, as much of its functionality as possible should be made > > available !  But

[sage-devel] Re: vote: including gp2c into sage?

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 8:55 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 27, 11:42 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> > We had a vote on this a month or two back and then then consensus was > >> >

[sage-devel] Re: a question on L-series for dirichlet characters....

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Rubinstein
My c++ L-function package has a general L-function class and library of functions. Given basic data for the L-function (Dirichlet series coefficients and functional equation) it can compute the function. The command line interface, lcalc, has some basic built in types of L-functions (including

[sage-devel] Re: a question on L-series for dirichlet characters....

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:26 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is an excellent idea. Obviously, for every package Sage > includes, as much of its functionality as possible should be made > available ! But this does take time and effort. > > I am CC-ing this to sage-nt since if

[sage-devel] Re: vote: including gp2c into sage?

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 27, 11:42 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > We had a vote on this a month or two back and then then consensus was >> > not to include gp2c per default. I agree that the patch should be >> >

[sage-devel] Re: Off-topic: free Codeweavers Crossover plugin offer

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI, for just today (Tuesday, 28 Oct), apparently Codeweavers is > offering their Crossover Wine-based plugin (letting you run windows > applications under their modified Wine on Linux or Mac) for free. See > http://down.

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 28, 4:32 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 2:15 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: [snip] > > I can't quite put my finger on why I have a   > > strong reaction, but I think it's because   > > "sage-3.2.alpha.spkg1.tar.bz2" is harder to (visually) parse, an

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Oct 28, 3:10 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It looks great! It's by my office door now. We will be having a >> conference that features an introduction to Sage in about two weeks; can >> I use this as a promotional flyer? > > Thx, and very cool ;) > Yes

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha1 released

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 12:14 am, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 23:59 , Georg S. Weber wrote: Hi, > > on my Intel Core2 Duo Mac OS X 10.4.11 / Xcode2.5 box Sage 3.2.alpha1 > > built fine > > (building it I was using just the plain normal "make" command, no > > substitu

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Abbott
On Oct 28, 7:32 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 on the rename, too. It will cause massive problems without any > serious benefit whatsoever. The manual clearly describes what an spkg > is and provides tools to create them and so on. If one wants to play > with the innards of Sage and

[sage-devel] Re: [fricas-devel] Re: SF.net SVN: fricas:[429] releases/1.0.4/

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Page
> On Oct 28, 6:28 am, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: >> > Tag 1.0.4 release. >> > >> maybe the .spkg should also change its version number. I still have >> no clue where the standard place for the fricas.spkg is. Is there a >> link on the Axiom-Wiki? > ??? The "standard place" for the fricas-xxx.spkg is on

[sage-devel] Off-topic: free Codeweavers Crossover plugin offer

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
FYI, for just today (Tuesday, 28 Oct), apparently Codeweavers is offering their Crossover Wine-based plugin (letting you run windows applications under their modified Wine on Linux or Mac) for free. See http://down.codeweavers.com/ See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeweavers for apparen

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 7:16 am, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 3:10 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks great!  It's by my office door now.  We will be having a > > conference that features an introduction to Sage in about two weeks; can > > I use this as a prom

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 28, 3:10 pm, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks great! It's by my office door now. We will be having a > conference that features an introduction to Sage in about two weeks; can > I use this as a promotional flyer? Thx, and very cool ;) Yes, sure, promote what you can, tha

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Abbott
On Oct 28, 6:30 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though I'm in favor of making things easier for the debian > process (both (a) to add more Sage users and (b) in the perhaps > wildly overly optimistic hope that one day Canonical will support Sage > somehow), I wonder if it is possib

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Oct 23, 11:09 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. >> How does it look without that? > > It was boring without it, that's the reason why I introduced it in the > first place ;) > Contrasts are cha

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-28 Thread Georg Muntingh
Minh, Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts to Planet Sage, http://planet.sagemath.org/ ? Georg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more

[sage-devel] hermite polynomials in Sage vs. Pari/Gp 2.4.x

2008-10-28 Thread Pablo De Napoli
One good reason for using the 2.4.x version of pari (and not the 2.3.x stable branch) [although this might be bad for gp2c) is that the 2.4.x has some functions that are not present in the stable branch. For instance, it has a function polhermite that computes the Hermite polynomials that seem

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Pablo De Napoli
I think that it would be important to change the extension to .tar.bz2 so that the sage packages get recognized by standard systems tools. (For instance, try to open a spkg with a filemanager like midnight commander...) May be we can change foo.spkg to foo.spkg.tar.bz2 This way the package

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha1 released

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 27, 11:59 pm, "Georg S. Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noted one other defect of Sage3.2.alpha1, which seems to have been > there for quite a time. > Change again into devel/sage, then do "hg verify", and we're informed > of an integrity error: > > susanne-webers-computer:~/Publ

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 28, 2:15 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:45 AM, Georg S. Weber wrote: > > > Hi, > > > often I'd like to "just have a quick look" into a spkg. > > Then I copy it, rename it, tell Mac OS X that YES, I do want to rename > > it, > > and then I can open

[sage-devel] Re: vote: including gp2c into sage?

2008-10-28 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 27, 11:42 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We had a vote on this a month or two back and then then consensus was > > not to include gp2c per default. I agree that the patch should be > > merged, though. > > Yes, that's what happened. > > I think the better way for gp2

[sage-devel] Re: advertisement for sage in dutch journal

2008-10-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 23, 11:09 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The background buckyball seems distracting to me. > How does it look without that? It was boring without it, that's the reason why I introduced it in the first place ;) Contrasts are changed in a way, that it is always r

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread David Joyner
Though I'm in favor of making things easier for the debian process (both (a) to add more Sage users and (b) in the perhaps wildly overly optimistic hope that one day Canonical will support Sage somehow), I wonder if it is possible for someone sufficiently skillful to write a script which crawls th

[sage-devel] Re: vote: including gp2c into sage?

2008-10-28 Thread John Cremona
2008/10/28 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:21 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Oct 27, 7:17 pm, "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >> >> Hi, >> >>> Since this requires a C compiler in order to work anyway, it seems >>> like it

[sage-devel] Re: a question on L-series for dirichlet characters....

2008-10-28 Thread John Cremona
This is an excellent idea. Obviously, for every package Sage includes, as much of its functionality as possible should be made available ! But this does take time and effort. I am CC-ing this to sage-nt since if we are going to discuss how to do this in detail that might be the best forum. Joh

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 28, 2008, at 12:45 AM, Georg S. Weber wrote: > Hi, > > often I'd like to "just have a quick look" into a spkg. > Then I copy it, rename it, tell Mac OS X that YES, I do want to rename > it, > and then I can open it with a mouse click, and change into the created > directory. > Finally I am

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi, often I'd like to "just have a quick look" into a spkg. Then I copy it, rename it, tell Mac OS X that YES, I do want to rename it, and then I can open it with a mouse click, and change into the created directory. Finally I am able to scan the contents. It would be nice to be quicker, and with

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.2.alpha1 released

2008-10-28 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Oct 27, 2008, at 23:59 , Georg S. Weber wrote: > On 28 Okt., 02:53, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, Michael, >> >> On Oct 27, 2008, at 18:39 , mabshoff wrote: >> >>> On Oct 27, 4:57 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:09 PM, mabsho