[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> William Stein wrote: * No glossy printed reference manual >>> Add "You can't purchase a printed reference manual". There is a >>> glossy nice pdf reference manual, but it's not for sale. I have >>> printed it out

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

2009-07-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:21 AM, 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.

[sage-devel] Re: Should errors be returned or raised??

2009-07-06 Thread Craig Citro
>> I found a situation when calling GF(2) returned the tuple >>  (TypeError, "error coercing to finite field") >> > Nice find.  Thanks for fixing this.  See my comments on the ticket. > Indeed, there are several more -- this will find them, but also produce some noise: sage: search_src("return",

[sage-devel] Size of exponents and silent errors

2009-07-06 Thread Bjarke Hammersholt Roune
I'd like to discuss whether limiting the size of exponents of variables in Sage is a good way to go, and whether it is necessary to report an error when breaking those limits. In the default polynomial ring using Singular, Sage currently reports an exponent overflow error when presented with a var

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> >>> * No glossy printed reference manual >> >> Add "You can't purchase a printed reference manual". There is a >> glossy nice pdf reference manual, but it's not for sale. I have >> printed it out before (for an AMS me

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > >> * No glossy printed reference manual > > Add "You can't purchase a printed reference manual". There is a > glossy nice pdf reference manual, but it's not for sale. I have > printed it out before (for an AMS meeting). We do sell a tutorial > though, and the royalties

[sage-devel] Re: Integration in new Sage symbolics

2009-07-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Jason Grout wrote: >> How do you include modules from a new directory in Sage? I tried >> as you suggested but sage somehow is not finding the module. > > > See sage/setup.py (search for "packages"). Put your directory in there. > > Also, make sure you have an _

[sage-devel] Re: Integration in new Sage symbolics

2009-07-06 Thread Jason Grout
Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote: I plan to move the integrate() and sum() (after #3587) constructs to be symbolic functions (i.e., subclasses of SFunction from sage.symbolic.function), as opposed to regular python functio

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread Jason Grout
rjf wrote: > > the way most programming language grammars work, those based on so- > called context-free grammars, it is important to avoid ambiguity, and > to have constructions that can be parsed regardless of context. > thus > x+y means the same as > (x)+y in most programming languages. > >

[sage-devel] Re: Should errors be returned or raised??

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Simon King wrote: > > Dear Sage-Devel, > > I found a situation when calling GF(2) returned the tuple >  (TypeError, "error coercing to finite field") > > I guess the error should be raised and not returned. Or is this > intended behaviour? > > If you think agree it

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
Here is a talk I gave that was about many of the many features Magma has that Sage doesn't have: http://wstein.org/talks/20090609-sage_and_magma/ Below I'll make a few remarks just because they occurred to me. I'm not trying to disagree with anything you wrote. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:27 PM,

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

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:14 AM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> >> >> ... >> > > On the other hand, the fact that the new format would deviate from the > sage > format would

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 6, 7:58 pm, rjf wrote: > the way most programming language grammars work, those based on so- > called context-free grammars, it is important to avoid ambiguity, and > to have constructions that can be parsed regardless of context. > thus > x+y means the same as > (x)+y  in most programming

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:58 AM, rjf wrote: > > > the way most programming language grammars work, those based on so- > called context-free grammars, it is important to avoid ambiguity, and > to have constructions that can be parsed regardless of context. > thus > x+y means the same as > (x)+y  in

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread rjf
the way most programming language grammars work, those based on so- called context-free grammars, it is important to avoid ambiguity, and to have constructions that can be parsed regardless of context. thus x+y means the same as (x)+y in most programming languages. now consider integrate(sin(x)

[sage-devel] Re: Integration in new Sage symbolics

2009-07-06 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi, On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote: >> > I plan to move the integrate() and sum() (after #3587) constructs >> > to be symbolic functions (i.e., subclasses of SFunction from >> > sage.symbolic.function), as opposed to regular python functions in >> > sage.calculus.calculus.

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:16 PM, rjf wrote: > > allowing (a,b,c)  to be a list of 3 items means that > (x+y)  could either be a list of one item, namely x+y > or the expression x+y itself. > > So it is probably a bad idea unless you think that singleton lists are > the same as their first element.

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread rjf
allowing (a,b,c) to be a list of 3 items means that (x+y) could either be a list of one item, namely x+y or the expression x+y itself. So it is probably a bad idea unless you think that singleton lists are the same as their first element. And I suspect that you don't want to think that. RJF

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > > > On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> >> Also I guess he would like to maintain it in mercurial, not git. :) I >> have no problems with that. > > There is now an extension to Mercurial to access git repositories. The > GitHub g

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-06 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Also I guess he would like to maintain it in mercurial, not git. :) I > have no problems with that. There is now an extension to Mercurial to access git repositories. The GitHub guys made it. So, you can keep your repository in git and the Sa

[sage-devel] Re: implement knapsack problems solvers in Cython or Python?

2009-07-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi William, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:44 PM, William Stein wrote: > You might also want to implement a LLL-based knapsack solving > algorithm, since Sage includes fplll which is an extremely fast LLL > implementation. > > I don't know if this page is any good but it is about LLL knapsack algor

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >>> 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 >>>

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > > On Jul 6, 2009, at 15:22 , Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> >> Bill Hart wrote: >>> I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the >>> general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. >>> >>> So I think I can give this chan

[sage-devel] Re: Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: I think Sage is less consistent in syntax and less powerful than MMA in some things, like plotting and differential equations. >>> >>> Jason, its great that yo

[sage-devel] Re: implement knapsack problems solvers in Cython or Python?

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi David, > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > > >> I'm not an expert but did find this ((essentially vacuous) page: >> http://www.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/branchandcut/MCKP/ >> and the knapsack problem is listed among th

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

2009-07-06 Thread Franco Saliola
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.washington.edu/home/rlmill/release/sage-4.1.rc0-sage.math-only-x86_64-Linux.tar

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Justin C. Walker wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2009, at 15:22 , Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> Bill Hart wrote: >>> I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the >>> general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. >>> >>> So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is >>>

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Jul 6, 2009, at 15:22 , Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Bill Hart wrote: >> I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the >> general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. >> >> So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is >> certainly >> not *less* standard

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Joel B. Mohler
> > > What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual, > > > linux man documentation is incomprehensible). I think it means that if the source file is a link, it will copy the link and make a new link. It will not copy the contents of the linked file. -- Joel --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the > general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. > > So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is certainly > not *less* standard than -a. > > I have a trac account. I'll change it to positive re

[sage-devel] Consistent Sage syntax (was Re: What are *DIS*advantages of ... )

2009-07-06 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jason Grout wrote: >>> I think Sage is less consistent in syntax and less powerful than MMA in >>> some things, like plotting and differential equations. >> >> Jason, its great that you brought out this issue about inconsistent syntax. >> It would be really go

[sage-devel] Re: implement knapsack problems solvers in Cython or Python?

2009-07-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM, David Joyner wrote: > I'm not an expert but did find this ((essentially vacuous) page: > http://www.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/branchandcut/MCKP/ > and the knapsack problem is listed among the applications of Symphony: > http://www.coin-or.org/SYMPHONY/bran

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Bill Hart
I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is certainly not *less* standard than -a. I have a trac account. I'll change it to positive review. Bill. On 6 July, 18:19,

[sage-devel] Re: 'report bug' link on sagemath.org?

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:24 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Harald Schilly > wrote: >> >> Hi, I've just seen that http://wiki.sagemath.org/support/ReportingBugs >> has never been completed. Anyone here who has enough oversight to fill >> that gap? See discussion below

[sage-devel] Re: 'report bug' link on sagemath.org?

2009-07-06 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > Hi, I've just seen that http://wiki.sagemath.org/support/ReportingBugs > has never been completed. Anyone here who has enough oversight to fill > that gap? See discussion below for what it should have been! I'll add something right now. >

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

2009-07-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 6, 11:03 am, Andrzej Giniewicz wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > It builds for me; the other two spkgs there (3.1.0-4-...) fail to > > build on my mac. > > can you maybe provide full log there of both 3.1.0-2 and 3.1.0-4? Best > as packed download

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

2009-07-06 Thread gsw
Hi, we're a atep further with regard to the OS X / Singular 3.1.0.4 problem; see my comments at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6362#comment:29. There does seem to remain one more issue, but let's see. Cheers, gsw --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group

[sage-devel] Re: 'report bug' link on sagemath.org?

2009-07-06 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I've just seen that http://wiki.sagemath.org/support/ReportingBugs has never been completed. Anyone here who has enough oversight to fill that gap? See discussion below for what it should have been! Harald On May 18, 2:50 pm, mabshoff wrote: > On May 18, 5:21 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > >

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

2009-07-06 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > It builds for me; the other two spkgs there (3.1.0-4-...) fail to > build on my mac. can you maybe provide full log there of both 3.1.0-2 and 3.1.0-4? Best as packed download to not make mail of all full... anyway I can imagine there m

[sage-devel] Re: PIL interface questions

2009-07-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Joyner wrote: >>> > > ... > >>> >>> 4. Should I interface also with pyglet classes? (Pyglet is included with >>>    sympy, hence with sage, and

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > I see -a is the same as -dpR, and clearly -R is not needed as only one > file is copied. > > What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual, > linux man documentation is incomprehensible). > > I would need to know what that does and whether it is needed befo

[sage-devel] Re: PIL interface questions

2009-07-06 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> ... >> >> 4. Should I interface also with pyglet classes? (Pyglet is included with >>    sympy, hence with sage, and does some very very basic "image >>    processing".) Again, I don'

[sage-devel] Re: PIL interface questions

2009-07-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > 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

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > Ondrej Certik wrote: >> 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

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

2009-07-06 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:14 AM, David Joyner wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> > > ... > On the other hand, the fact that the new format would deviate from the sage format would be a clear drawback. Maybe, we should have this discussion >>>

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Bill Hart
Here's a few throw away lines I came up with in about 3 minutes. Not even sure they are all accurate. Disadvantages: * It is not as widely used (yet). * There is not a support line IT Services can ring up in the event of difficulties installing it on University systems. * Releases happen so freq

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

2009-07-06 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jul 6, 4:03 am, Andrzej Giniewicz wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:25 AM, gsw wrote: > > > 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

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Bill Hart
I see -a is the same as -dpR, and clearly -R is not needed as only one file is copied. What does the -d do? I don't understand the man file (not unusual, linux man documentation is incomprehensible). I would need to know what that does and whether it is needed before I could give this patch a po

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Jason Grout
Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> I think Sage is less consistent in syntax and less powerful than MMA in >> some things, like plotting and differential equations. > > Jason, its great that you brought out this issue about inconsisten

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Golam Mortuza Hossain
Hi On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > I think Sage is less consistent in syntax and less powerful than MMA in > some things, like plotting and differential equations. Jason, its great that you brought out this issue about inconsistent syntax. It would be really good if we

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

2009-07-06 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > ... >>> >>> On the other hand, the fact that the new format would deviate from the >>> sage >>> format would be a clear drawback. Maybe, we should have this >>> discussion >>> rather on the sage email list... >> >> Let's discuss this on the

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Jason Grout
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I made a few changes to the Wikipedia page, > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_(mathematics_software) > > to push the 'features' further up the list. I also added a section on > advantages/disadvantages of Sage. Just sticking advantages will lead to > their deletio

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-06 Thread Jason Grout
Ondrej Certik wrote: > 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

[sage-devel] Should errors be returned or raised??

2009-07-06 Thread Simon King
Dear Sage-Devel, I found a situation when calling GF(2) returned the tuple (TypeError, "error coercing to finite field") I guess the error should be raised and not returned. Or is this intended behaviour? If you think agree it is a bug or if you know a good reason why the error is not raised

[sage-devel] Re: implement knapsack problems solvers in Cython or Python?

2009-07-06 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Knapsack problems and their algorithmic solutions have many > applications in industry, with operation research and cryptography to > name two. As many, if not all, of the operation research software of > COIN-OR are covered by l

[sage-devel] Re: Implementation of Zeilberger and similar algorthms?

2009-07-06 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Robert Dodier wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: > > > You can use Maxima to invoke Zeilberger's algorithm, Gosper's > > algorithm, etc., using code like in the example in the above > > mailing list post. > > The simplify_sum share package calls the Gosper a

[sage-devel] Is Sage failing on the last stage - or wishful thinking ??

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've built/installed the following packages from Sage 4.1.rc0 (in order of building) on Solaris 10. (This is on my machine, not t2). It's failing as below. Is this the last stage of the building of Sage, or is that wishful thinking on my part? sage-4.1.rc0/README.txt sage-4.1.rc0/spkg-dist sa

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

2009-07-06 Thread Andrzej Giniewicz
Hi, On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:25 AM, gsw wrote: > > 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? seems so, in

[sage-devel] Re: pari problems in paripriv.h

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On Solaris I get a few errors trying to build pari. > > 1) One of which is clearly a Solaris-specific bug (no -fPIC when > building a shared library), which should be fixed in pari, but someone > has made an unsuccessful attempt to do so in Sage's spkg-install. I > b

[sage-devel] pari problems in paripriv.h

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On Solaris I get a few errors trying to build pari. 1) One of which is clearly a Solaris-specific bug (no -fPIC when building a shared library), which should be fixed in pari, but someone has made an unsuccessful attempt to do so in Sage's spkg-install. I believe my Solaris-specific fix at h

[sage-devel] implement knapsack problems solvers in Cython or Python?

2009-07-06 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Knapsack problems and their algorithmic solutions have many applications in industry, with operation research and cryptography to name two. As many, if not all, of the operation research software of COIN-OR are covered by licenses that are incompatible with GPLv2+, I have thought about

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

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
rjf wrote: > 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 do

[sage-devel] What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I made a few changes to the Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_(mathematics_software) to push the 'features' further up the list. I also added a section on advantages/disadvantages of Sage. Just sticking advantages will lead to their deletion, as it wont be a neutral point of vi

[sage-devel] Re: FLINT 1.4 Released!

2009-07-06 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: > I've just released FLINT 1.4. Get it at http://www.flintlib.org/ Note, if flint is updated, my fix for Solaris still needs a review at http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/6451 which fixes a GNUism in spkg-install, and is not a fault of flint. Perhaps someone could review th