[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Rado
I will definitely stop by. Looking forward to meeting all the Sage people. On Oct 14, 8:32 pm, mhampton wrote: > I started a wiki page for this: > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2010 > > and I took the liberty of adding Karl, Rob Beezer, and William as > participants.  Hopefully that's OK.  I en

[sage-devel] sage-4.1.2 and sage-4.2

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
Hi, I. SAGE-4.1.2: Sage-4.1.2 has been released. 1. You can download the source code here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/src/sage-4.1.2.tar 2. I've posted many binaries here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/binaries/ (not, a few are still being

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] MPIR 1.3 (jumbo release) available for testing.... at last

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > > I've just put up MPIR 1.3 (alpha) for testing. > > As there is sooo much new code there is a very real possibility that > the Sage test suite will turn something up. Any volunteers to make an > spkg and see? I have an spkg up at http

[sage-devel] MPIR 1.3 (jumbo release) available for testing.... at last

2009-10-14 Thread Bill Hart
I've just put up MPIR 1.3 (alpha) for testing. As there is sooo much new code there is a very real possibility that the Sage test suite will turn something up. Any volunteers to make an spkg and see? We especially would appreciate owners of Apple machines and anything slightly exotic, to test MP

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:09 AM, kcrisman wrote: >>> I don't think this would work at all, unless there is an *easy* >>> automated procedure to submit a patch to a bot which (a) applies the >>> patch to the current tree (b) compiles in all platforms (c) attaches >>> the logs to the ticket and possibl

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Burcin Erocal > wrote: >> The status of "lieutenant" is the equivalent of having "commit >> access" >> in other open source projects. I would prefer a different term for >> "lieutenant", but I don't have

[sage-devel] Burma Sage

2009-10-14 Thread Dan Drake
A while back, I mentioned on sage-marketing the idea of making "Burma Sage" advertisements for the Joint Meetings or some similar event. (For those who don't know about Burma Shave advertisements: [1]) I made up some examples. :) Why Sage and you are a good match: "Just implement it and send us

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread mhampton
I started a wiki page for this: http://wiki.sagemath.org/jmms2010 and I took the liberty of adding Karl, Rob Beezer, and William as participants. Hopefully that's OK. I encourage anyone else who is attending to add your name to the list, since it will give me a better idea of how many business

[sage-devel] Re: Fixing or eliminating a ticket

2009-10-14 Thread louie
Thanks for the screencast, Minh. Uploading files now. - Luis V. - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options,

[sage-devel] http://sagenb.org

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
Hi, Last night I switched the full http://sagenb.org over to use the new separate-from-Sage Sage notebook code.In particular, this involves using code for which the evaluation and storage code has been rewritten. I'm curious how it is working for people/courses/whatever. If you use http:

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>> * To develop sage, one downloads the sourc tarball and then develops >>> inside the devel/sage-xyz directory. >> >> No, this is wrong.    You can *definitely* develop sage by downloading >> a binary and extracting it.  To modify the "sag

[sage-devel] fricas-aldor-spkg

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
I've just added http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6517#comment:17 (and 18) Could someone please test this? Thank Ralf --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
> > I can almost see several people sitting out in the lobby on a couch, > with the huge Sage banner draped over your laps and hanging down in > front of the couch, coding and having a great time. But it won't be a party without you! We really need to get a head count... - kcrisman --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 14, 4:26 pm, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > On 10/15/2009 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 3:15 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > [snip] > > >>> * There is no repository for the source code (i.e. source tarball minus > >>>

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> * To develop sage, one downloads the sourc tarball and then develops >> inside the devel/sage-xyz directory. > > No, this is wrong.You can *definitely* develop sage by downloading > a binary and extracting it. To modify the "sage Python library" > involves working on devel/sage-xyz. Well

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 10/15/2009 12:51 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Oct 14, 3:15 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > [snip] > >>> * There is no repository for the source code (i.e. source tarball minus >>> the directories spkg, devel, data, examples, local, (

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 14, 3:15 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: [snip] > > * There is no repository for the source code (i.e. source tarball minus > > the directories spkg, devel, data, examples, local, (ipython). > > No, this is wrong.  There is a repository

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread mhampton
That would be great if you could do the stickers, and I will do the business cards. Thanks! Marshall On Oct 14, 2:37 pm, Rob Beezer wrote: > I'll take on the sticker project if Marshall is looking to distribute > the work. Maverick Label looks comparable in price with a slightly > more idiot-p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>> Sage *is* different than other programs, since even in the binary >>> release it comes with .hg repositories (under devel and local/bin) and >>> lets users actually modify what they want. > >> Sage is indeed different in that the techno

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: > Do not know if this is relevant, but I get the message > It looks like jsMath failed to set up properly (error code -7). I > will try to keep going, but it could get ugly. > when looking at published worksheets, like http://uw.sagenb.org/home/pub/4/ > > I do not have th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >>> Sage *is* different than other programs, since even in the binary >>> release it comes with .hg repositories (under devel and local/bin) and >>> lets users actually modify what they want. > >> Sage is indeed different in that the techno

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
Rob Beezer wrote: > I'll take on the sticker project if Marshall is looking to distribute > the work. Maverick Label looks comparable in price with a slightly > more idiot-proof ordering interface (at a cost of fewer colors, I > think). 500 might be overkill, but the marginal cost of the last 10

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-14 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
Do not know if this is relevant, but I get the message It looks like jsMath failed to set up properly (error code -7). I will try to keep going, but it could get ugly. when looking at published worksheets, like http://uw.sagenb.org/home/pub/4/ I do not have this problem with Sage 4.1.1 Firefox

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Rob Beezer
I'll take on the sticker project if Marshall is looking to distribute the work. Maverick Label looks comparable in price with a slightly more idiot-proof ordering interface (at a cost of fewer colors, I think). 500 might be overkill, but the marginal cost of the last 100 stickers is 2.5 cents/st

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-14 Thread Thierry Dumont
William Stein a écrit : > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Thierry Dumont > wrote: >> W >> 2) With the current notebook. I tried the following experience: I have 2 >> machines (actually 3). On these machines there are unix users sage1, >> sage2, ..., sage3...,sagen, with the same uid and same gid

[sage-devel] Sage Bootstrap

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> Sage *is* different than other programs, since even in the binary >> release it comes with .hg repositories (under devel and local/bin) and >> lets users actually modify what they want. > Sage is indeed different in that the technology is constructed to > discourage to "developer"/"end user"

[sage-devel] Re: Graph.add_vertex() returns nothing...

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Miller
> What is meant by "slow" ? Why should looking for the smallest integer not in > the graph be "slow" ? "Slow" means linear, not constant, for the obvious reasons. > Is there any good reason why the function g.add_vertex does not return the > name of the newly created vertex ? Because it gets *r

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Miller
I've been thinking about going to the joint meetings, and (although it looks irrelevant) I still have the Sage banner in my office at UW. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: >> >> Marshall, >> >> Limited Googling got me:

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM, William Stein wrote: > I do not see it on any of my 20 or so clean builds.  Maybe it arises > only from an upgrade or something. I did it from a clean build of 4.1.2.rc2. -- Carlo Hamalainen http://carlo-hamalainen.net --~--~-~--~~~

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > > William Stein wrote: > >> I hope soon we'll have a web-based interface that allows one to easily >> change Sage code using Bespin (that code editor), make patches, test >> changes (on 10 platforms), etc., all trivially from a web browser vi

[sage-devel] Re: another blocker ticket for Sage-4.1.2

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Juanjo wrote: > > On Oct 11, 7:53 pm, William Stein wrote: >> I was reading theeclbinaries and grepping around (I felt a bit like >> a "warez person" for a moment)... and found this in the binary: >> >>     ... ecld...@cannot findECL'sdirectory^... >> >> So I tri

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
William Stein wrote: > I hope soon we'll have a web-based interface that allows one to easily > change Sage code using Bespin (that code editor), make patches, test > changes (on 10 platforms), etc., all trivially from a web browser via > a webapp. What do you mean by "hope soon": 1. People ar

[sage-devel] Re: 4.1.2.rc2: R failed to build

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > Hi there, > > I had trouble building the current rc2. > > make[6]: Leaving directory > `/usr/local/sage-4.1.2.rc2/spkg/build/r-2.9.2/src/src/library/base' > /usr/local/sage-4.1.2.rc2/spkg/build/r-2.9.2/src/bin/exec/R: > /usr/local/sage-4

[sage-devel] Re: trac

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: > I've worked on some Nginx servers using FCGI, so I can try. Excellent. Write to me offlist with a requested login name for sage.math.washington.edu, and I'll set things up so you can login to the virtual machine that hosts trac. Willia

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Thierry Dumont wrote: > William Stein a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new >> bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program >> and rewriting the expect stuff).  But I realized that it wou

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >> There has to be a significant benefit. > > I don't think that the idea of "configure" is/was that it is easier for > the enduser. It's easier for the developers with only a very small > overhead for the enduser. If something fails, an ord

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Marshall Hampton wrote: > > I had the same error as Carlo, which I reported for the alpha4 and rc0 > releases as well.  I'm sort of puzzled, given the nature of the error, > as to why more people don't see it. I do not see it on any of my 20 or so clean builds.

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > 2) When submitting a patch, they attach logs showing building on all > platforms, *except* the one they normally work on, since one can assume > they have probably got their patch working there. > > This really is no more than an extensio

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 14, 11:22 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi kcrisman, > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:16 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > > Nope, I think we start with Tiger (10.4).  In fact, definitely won't > > work with the fix for dynamic links or whatever we did for cliquer. > > I'm hoping to hang on to this

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Marshall, > > Limited Googling got me:  http://www.sheet-labels.com/printing/ > > $35 for 500 stickers at 1" x 0.625" which was the smallest I could > find.  Lots of options - rounded corners, different sizes, etc. > > Rob I can certainly c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage at the joint meetings in San Francisco

2009-10-14 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Marshall, > > Limited Googling got me:  http://www.sheet-labels.com/printing/ > > $35 for 500 stickers at 1" x 0.625" which was the smallest I could > find.  Lots of options - rounded corners, different sizes, etc. > > Rob I asked my brothe

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi kcrisman, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:16 AM, kcrisman wrote: > Nope, I think we start with Tiger (10.4). In fact, definitely won't > work with the fix for dynamic links or whatever we did for cliquer. > I'm hoping to hang on to this one for a little longer for the same > purpose, but we'll

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Setting up such a build-bot is not something I have ever attempted. I > would imagine is quite a bit of work to get it right. Indeed it does when one considers that a build-bot would need to initiate a build of an alpha, rc

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 14, 10:45 am, Jason Grout wrote: > kcrisman wrote: > > >>> I don't think this would work at all, unless there is an *easy* > >>> automated procedure to submit a patch to a bot which (a) applies the > >>> patch to the current tree (b) compiles in all platforms (c) attaches > >>> the logs

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Jason Grout
kcrisman wrote: > > >>> I don't think this would work at all, unless there is an *easy* >>> automated procedure to submit a patch to a bot which (a) applies the >>> patch to the current tree (b) compiles in all platforms (c) attaches >>> the logs to the ticket and possibly flags the ticket depen

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
kcrisman wrote: > > Fascinating discussion. > > I just want to emphasize two things as a representative of those who > knew virtually nothing about programming or open source when we > started. > > 1) If you're serious about this doctesting (esp. on different > platforms) thing, there has to be

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 14, 9:33 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi kcrisman, > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > > My point > > was that neither of them correspond to the list of blockers on the > > "official" milestone page, and that page doesn't have any clues as to > > what filter was u

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
> > I don't think this would work at all, unless there is an *easy* > > automated procedure to submit a patch to a bot which (a) applies the > > patch to the current tree (b) compiles in all platforms (c) attaches > > the logs to the ticket and possibly flags the ticket depending on the > > resu

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Dr. David Kirkby > wrote: >> 2) When submitting a patch, they attach logs showing building on all >> platforms, *except* the one they normally work on, since one can assume >> they have probably got their patch working there. > > I don't

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
Fascinating discussion. I just want to emphasize two things as a representative of those who knew virtually nothing about programming or open source when we started. 1) If you're serious about this doctesting (esp. on different platforms) thing, there has to be a way to make it drop-dead easy -

[sage-devel] Re: How should we handle the case of no gcc or g++ in the path?

2009-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Gonzalo Tornaria wrote: > What compiler will be used if gcc and g++ are not in the path? > Presumably, this will only work if CC and CXX are set to proper > compilers, right? Doesn't it make sense to: > 4) check for gcc and g++ except when CC and/or CXX are set, in > which case, check for CC

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi kcrisman, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:25 AM, kcrisman wrote: > My point > was that neither of them correspond to the list of blockers on the > "official" milestone page, and that page doesn't have any clues as to > what filter was used to generate it. I was the person who edited the Sage 4

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
On Oct 14, 9:00 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi kcrisman, > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > This may be a dumb question, but... > > > Why doesn'thttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-4.1.2 > > agree with > >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/query?status=assig

[sage-devel] Re: How should we handle the case of no gcc or g++ in the path?

2009-10-14 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > --- > 3) Exit if gcc or g++ can not be found unless SAGE_PORT is exported to > some non-empty value. Currently SAGE_PORT is only needed on some > operating systems, and has nothing to do with compilers, bu

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > 2) When submitting a patch, they attach logs showing building on all > platforms, *except* the one they normally work on, since one can assume > they have probably got their patch working there. I don't think this would work at all, unle

[sage-devel] Re: libm4ri issues with non-GNU/x86 environments.

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Albrecht
> >> 2) On HP-UX, the configure script can't work out how many CPUs I have, > >> what sort they are, but then tries to determine the cache size. This > >> causes the configure script to break. > >> > >> The macro for determining the number of CPUs > >> > >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=au

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi kcrisman, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > This may be a dumb question, but... > > Why doesn't http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-4.1.2 > agree with > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&order=prio

[sage-devel] Re: libm4ri issues with non-GNU/x86 environments.

2009-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> libm4ri has two issues that I am aware of as soon as one tries to use a >> non-GNU or non-86 environment. >> >> >> I believe the developers hang out here, so I'll put a bit of information >> here, on the hope they se

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread kcrisman
This may be a dumb question, but... Why doesn't http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/milestone/sage-4.1.2 agree with http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&order=priority&priority=blocker&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=owner&col=type&co

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > The status of "lieutenant" is the equivalent of having "commit access" > in other open source projects. I would prefer a different term for > "lieutenant", but I don't have anything better now. What about "editor"? Gonzalo --~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:38 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a release candidate for Sage-4.1.2: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/farm/src/sage-4.1.2.rc2.tar In case anyone is interested, here's the HTML version of this version's standard documentation: ht

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 14, 1:30 pm, gsw wrote: >    How about intertwining these two phases? i don't know how manageable this is, especially when patches depend on each other and so on. a similar approach would be to have a main trunk, like an inifite alpha, and from time to time a second release manager picks

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:09, William Stein wrote: > In many talks, etc., I have made a big stink about how every released > version of Sage is available, ... The way to go is to go to the front page, click on "source" (below download) and then on "older version". I made the later one a bit bi

[sage-devel] Re: How should we handle the case of no gcc or g++ in the path?

2009-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
gsw wrote: > > +1 to option (3). > > Cheers, Georg OK, give there are two +1's, I also think option 3 is best, then when I make a new prereq, the following will happen. (option 3) --- 3) Exit if gcc or g++ can not be found unless SAGE_PORT is exported to some

[sage-devel] Re: notebook help needed

2009-10-14 Thread Thierry Dumont
William Stein a écrit : > Hi, > > Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new > bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program > and rewriting the expect stuff). But I realized that it would be a > total nightmare to introduce yet another sobj ("sage

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread gsw
Hi, there's another possibility to speed up the Sage release frequency, by a certain parallelization. Currently, the Sage releases are done sequentially, and in two phases: - the "alpha" phase, where tons of tickets are merged, and new functionality gets in - the "release cadidate" phase, where

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Marshall Hampton
I had the same error as Carlo, which I reported for the alpha4 and rc0 releases as well. I'm sort of puzzled, given the nature of the error, as to why more people don't see it. I also had sage -t "devel/sage/doc/en/bordeaux_2008/birds_other.rst" A mysterious error (perhaps a memory error?) occ

[sage-devel] Re: trac

2009-10-14 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
I've worked on some Nginx servers using FCGI, so I can try. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:21 AM, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > Currently I think trac.sagemath.org is setup to use the default > builtin Python webserver. This sucks performance wise. I discovered > that Microsoft's MSN search eng

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 14, 7:28 am, Rob Beezer wrote: > I wonder if the "lieutenant" model used by Linux kernel development > might be helpful here?   Ok, I've read this and to make sure you all are not talking about different things: there are two ways to split the workload: - horizontally: Sage itself is spl

[sage-devel] Re: How should we handle the case of no gcc or g++ in the path?

2009-10-14 Thread gsw
+1 to option (3). Cheers, Georg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.

[sage-devel] 4.1.2.rc2: R failed to build

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi there, I had trouble building the current rc2. make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/sage-4.1.2.rc2/spkg/build/r-2.9.2/src/src/library/base' /usr/local/sage-4.1.2.rc2/spkg/build/r-2.9.2/src/bin/exec/R: /usr/local/sage-4.1.2.rc2/local/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-unknown-linux- gnu/4.0.3/libgcc_s.so.

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.1.2.rc2

2009-10-14 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM, William Stein wrote: > This is a release candidate for Sage-4.1.2: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/farm/src/sage-4.1.2.rc2.tar sage -testall reported just one failure on Ubuntu 9.04 x86 32bit: $ sage -t "devel/sage/sage/server/notebook/cell.py"

[sage-devel] Re: another blocker ticket for Sage-4.1.2

2009-10-14 Thread Juanjo
On Oct 11, 7:53 pm, William Stein wrote: > I was reading theeclbinaries and grepping around (I felt a bit like > a "warez person" for a moment)... and found this in the binary: > >     ... ecld...@cannot findECL'sdirectory^... > > So I tried setting ECLDIR, and that fixes the problem.  Maybe we j

[sage-devel] Re: libm4ri issues with non-GNU/x86 environments.

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > libm4ri has two issues that I am aware of as soon as one tries to use a > non-GNU or non-86 environment. > > > I believe the developers hang out here, so I'll put a bit of information > here, on the hope they see it. > > 1) Despite the fac

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Simon King
Hi! Part of the problem seems money. IIRC there is some funding by Google and by Sun. Can this be used to pay release management? On Oct 14, 6:28 am, Rob Beezer wrote: > [...] > I wonder if the "lieutenant" model used by Linux kernel development > might be helpful here?  If there was one or two

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > I think a huge amount of the problem will be that many of those 66 > positive reviewed tickets probably will: > (2) many of the patches will probably fail on 32-bit or ppc or OS X, > even though they worked fine on sage.math. In a post yesterday I said: ---

[sage-devel] Re: spkg-install's [was Re: Using a random number generator to tell the time!]

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> I don't know how much we can count on distutils/distribute/scons/? to > support non-gnu toolchains. On the other hand, if we're just using > pure Python, then I agree that it would lend itself to a much cleaner > build system (though then we risk re-inventing the wheel...) Maybe somebody

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> My perspective on Ralf's proposal is not to rewrite anything we > currently do, but to make it so building Sage feels "standard". I.e., > when I download some random tarball off the web, if it is a C/C++ > program I 100% expect that: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ # say > mak

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Burcin Erocal
Hi, On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:21:37 -0700 William Stein wrote: > What is "release management"?Right now there are *66* tickets > listed as "positive review" right here: >http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/11 > > Definition: Release management is the process of taking th

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> There has to be a significant benefit. I don't think that the idea of "configure" is/was that it is easier for the enduser. It's easier for the developers with only a very small overhead for the enduser. If something fails, an ordinary enduser probably has no idea what to do next. This appli

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
>> Just generating the toplevel makefile (and perhaps sage-env) should be >> easy. But you probably also mean spkg/install and spkg/standard/deps. If >> these would be the only files (in a first round) that would be doable. >> Have I forgotten anything? > I think creating the spkg-installs wou

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> I would prefer avoiding autoconf completely for this unless there is a > very compelling reason to do otherwise. I see no need for it at all. > It's one thing to have a familiar shell scripts called "configure", > and another to use autoconf. Why not use tools (on the developer side) that supp

[sage-devel] Re: sage, sage-sage, sage-env and the like

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> I'm not saying the top level configure script needs to be created by > autoconf, though it would look more 'normal' if it was, as 95% of > 'configure' scripts are created using autoconf. As usual, autoconf/automake are only required on the developer side. Programs are usually distributed wit

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-14 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:21 PM, William Stein wrote: > Definition: Release management is the process of taking these tickets, > applying them, bouncing those that don't work, creating a sage-4.2.tar > that works on our supported platforms, and creating binaries.   If an > unacceptable nu