[sage-devel] Re: Linear Programming and MIP... Let's start something huge !

2009-07-05 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:08:28AM -0700, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > Hello everybody > > I have already sent a few messages about this and complained for a > while. The only way for the moment to solve Linear Programs ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming ) is CVXOPT, a library

[sage-devel] Re: mixing package install with non-package installs

2009-07-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:58 PM, kilian wrote: >> >> Ondrej, >> >> On Jul 5, 6:28 pm, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> >>> Excellent, I have added you to the project, so just upload your spkg >>> package into the Downloads (hit new download and it s

[sage-devel] Re: mixing package install with non-package installs

2009-07-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:58 PM, kilian wrote: > > Ondrej, > > On Jul 5, 6:28 pm, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> Excellent, I have added you to the project, so just upload your spkg >> package into the Downloads (hit new download and it should work). >> > > OK, I uploaded it. > >> > One thing that I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread J Elaych
On a beta Ubuntu 9.10, sage-4.1.rc0 built and tested fine. However, Jaap Spie's ETS install doesn't work for vtk- cvs-20090316.spkg. Its looking for a libpython2.5.a and a Python.h file. Sage of course has a Python.h in its python2.6 directories, but it seems that vtk is looking for a 2.5. In

[sage-devel] Re: Could you elaborate more on spkg-check?

2009-07-05 Thread gsw
On 5 Jul., 23:06, Simon King wrote: > Hi Georg, > > On 5 Jul., 22:13, gsw wrote: > > > first of all, "sage-check" is something specific to Sage. > > Do you mean spkg-check? But sure, this is Sage specific as well, since > AFAIK spkg stands for Sage package. Ah, typo on my side. It is "spkg-ch

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread gsw
On Mac OS X 10.4, too, singular fails to build (see the message from John H Palmieri above). It seems that (see trac #6362) the update from Singular 3.1.0.2 to Singular 3.1.0.4 did have an unwanted side-effect ... thoughts? Cheers, gsw --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To pos

[sage-devel] notebook as a separate project

2009-07-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, so let's start the notebook as a separate project? I would of course prefer if Mike could do that, but if he's busy, I'll try to at least start it. I think it could be on notebook.sagemath.org. What kind of bugtracker do you prefer to use? Looking at Jaap's playground here: http://nb.femhub

[sage-devel] FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-05 Thread Bill Hart
I've just released FLINT 1.4. Get it at http://www.flintlib.org/ This release contains a large number of *speedups*. Note that the zmod_poly_gcd, xgcd, gcd_invert and resultant speedups also speed up the associated fmpz_poly functions. The gcd_invert, resultant and xgcd speedups are asymp

[sage-devel] PIL interface questions

2009-07-05 Thread David Joyner
Hi: I'm working on a user-friendly, intuitive interface to PIL and have some questions. Before preparing a patch, I was hoping that members of this group would suggest ways to proceed. Here is what I've done so far: in the module pil.py, posted to http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/patches

[sage-devel] Re: Could you elaborate more on spkg-check?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon King
Hi Georg, On 5 Jul., 22:13, gsw wrote: > first of all, "sage-check" is something specific to Sage. Do you mean spkg-check? But sure, this is Sage specific as well, since AFAIK spkg stands for Sage package. > But if you have, say, a C or CPP library in your spkg, it is a must > that the spkg-ch

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
I also built and tested (on Arch Linux current, 32bit, that's gcc 4.4 snapshot) - one test failed, devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py - in exactly same way as for Jaap (output noise) On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > > Robert Miller wrote: >> Source tarball, sage.math binary, and

[sage-devel] Re: Cython and Libraries

2009-07-05 Thread gsw
On 5 Jul., 19:04, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > Hi gsw, > > Thank you for looking at the Frobby-Cython ticket. According to the > Cython FAQ, pxd files are preferred over pxi files, unless the file > has to contain code rather than just declarations. The file in > question does not have any

[sage-devel] Re: Could you elaborate more on spkg-check?

2009-07-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:13 AM, gsw wrote: > > If this does answer your questions, please feel free to open a trac > ticket "Developers' Guide enhancement: About spkg-check". :-) If a trac ticket is opened about this, then I think one also needs to add information about timed out errors, as di

[sage-devel] Re: Could you elaborate more on spkg-check?

2009-07-05 Thread gsw
On 5 Jul., 17:23, Simon King wrote: > Dear sage devel, > > currently I am writing a test  suite for my cohomology spkg. In the > Developer's Guide, I read: > > spkg-check: this file runs the test suite. This is somewhat optional > since not all spkgs have test suites. If possible do create such

[sage-devel] Re: How to avoid Time Out in doc tests?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon King
Dear John, On 5 Jul., 21:22, John H Palmieri wrote: > > - How can one influence the time after which a test is killed? > > Look at the file SAGE_ROOT/local/bin/sage-doctest: it uses environment > variables SAGE_TIMEOUT and SAGE_TIMEOUT_LONG to determine how long (in > seconds) to test with 'sage

[sage-devel] Re: Any workaround for bug 6423 ??

2009-07-05 Thread rjf
In that report, William Stein says, "A large amount of the symbolic functionality that uses Maxima has issues like this, but unfortunately there is basically nothing we can do about it, except continue with projects to rewrite the parts of Sage that call Maxima so that they don't call Maxima." Wh

[sage-devel] Re: How to avoid Time Out in doc tests?

2009-07-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 5, 11:41 am, Simon King wrote: > Dear Sage devel, > > writing a test suite for my cohomology package, I got rather > frustrated. After working around the randomness of some Gap functions, > I am now concerned with the computation time. > > It happened that the tests passed, with a total ti

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread Rob Beezer
On Jul 5, 1:22 am, Jaap Spies wrote: > On Fedora 9, 32 bit: > > -- > The following tests failed: > >         sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py" > > sage -t  "devel/sage/sage/graphs/graph.py" >

[sage-devel] Re: How to avoid Time Out in doc tests?

2009-07-05 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Simon, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Simon King wrote: > > Dear Sage devel, > > writing a test suite for my cohomology package, I got rather > frustrated. After working around the randomness of some Gap functions, > I am now concerned with the computation time. > > It happened that the tests

[sage-devel] How to avoid Time Out in doc tests?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon King
Dear Sage devel, writing a test suite for my cohomology package, I got rather frustrated. After working around the randomness of some Gap functions, I am now concerned with the computation time. It happened that the tests passed, with a total time of about 15 minutes. But now, without me being a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread Kevin Horton
On 4 Jul 2009, at 23:21, Robert Miller wrote: > Source tarball, sage.math binary, and upgrade URL are, respectively: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0.tar > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0-sage.math-only-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz > htt

[sage-devel] Re: Multigraded Hilbert series

2009-07-05 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
I heard back from Gert-Martin Greuel of the Singular team. He said he would look into the Hilbert-related issues. He also pointing out the limitations mentioned at http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/latest/sing_343.htm#SEC384 In particular, I noticed these entries: * the (weighted) degree of

[sage-devel] Re: Cython and Libraries

2009-07-05 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Bjarke Hammersholt Roune wrote: > Hi gsw, > > Thank you for looking at the Frobby-Cython ticket. According to the > Cython FAQ, pxd files are preferred over pxi files, unless the file > has to contain code rather than just declarations. The file in > question does not have any code, so you are co

[sage-devel] Re: Cython and Libraries

2009-07-05 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
Hi gsw, Thank you for looking at the Frobby-Cython ticket. According to the Cython FAQ, pxd files are preferred over pxi files, unless the file has to contain code rather than just declarations. The file in question does not have any code, so you are correct that it would be better as a pxd file.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 4, 8:21 pm, Robert Miller wrote: > Source tarball, sage.math binary, and upgrade URL are, respectively: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0.tarhttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0-sage...http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmil

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread David Joyner
On an amd64 ubuntu 9.04 machine, install built fine and all tests passed. On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Robert Miller wrote: > > Source tarball, sage.math binary, and upgrade URL are, respectively: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0.tar > http://sage.math.was

[sage-devel] Could you elaborate more on spkg-check?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon King
Dear sage devel, currently I am writing a test suite for my cohomology spkg. In the Developer's Guide, I read: spkg-check: this file runs the test suite. This is somewhat optional since not all spkgs have test suites. If possible do create such a script since it helps isolate bugs in upstream p

[sage-devel] Substitute method for argument of derivative operator

2009-07-05 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi all, It seems none of the current substitute methods for symbolic expressions works for the argument of the derivative operator. In computing functional derivative, I need to vary a functional. For example, in sage-3.4 I can do as follows --- sage: f(x) = function('f',x) sage: df(x) = fun

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and numerics

2009-07-05 Thread Dag Sverre Seljebotn
Jason Grout wrote: > Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> 1) I must be able to use NumPy together with the preparser (it's just >> too much hassle to turn it on and off, and it kind of defeats the >> purpose.). That is, with the preparser on, I should be able to run most >> NumPy-using code without c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-4.1.rc0 released

2009-07-05 Thread Jaap Spies
Robert Miller wrote: > Source tarball, sage.math binary, and upgrade URL are, respectively: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0.tar > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0-sage.math-only-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz > http://sage.math.washington.