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

2009-10-19 Thread Stan Schymanski
Dear William, I tried to compile from source on my Macbook Pro with OSX 10.4.11 but got the following failure: make[5]: *** [gnutls_buffers.lo] Killed make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 failed to build GNUTLS real1m37.444s u

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> 3. One could probably replace the "expand to 2GB" vmdk by one that >> expands larger. > > Yes, exactly what I meant. > >> >>> Using a Windows file system shared folder does not wor

[sage-devel] Re: Categories restart: call for reviewers

2009-10-19 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > > Hi Robert, Craig, > > Any chances for you to review shortly: > > http://combinat.sagemath.org/patches/file/tip/categories-fixsagelib-nt.patch Looks fine to me. Seems to be mostly renaming stuff and plumbing category definitions a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM, William Stein wrote: > > 3. One could probably replace the "expand to 2GB" vmdk by one that > expands larger. Yes, exactly what I meant. > >> Using a Windows file system shared folder does not work because it >> does not support linux symbolic links. :-( > > It

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 19, 8:46 am, John H Palmieri wrote: > On Oct 19, 12:10 am, Mike Hansen wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > Sage 4.2.alpha0 is out.  Source and binary areavailable at > > When installing on Mac OS X 10.5, either 32 or 64 bit, I see this at > the very beginning: > >   ./install: line 131: PIL: co

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Dan Drake
I wrote: > Looking in the 4.2.alpha0 tarball, I don't see that this actually got > merged. The makefile is the same as 4.1.2. That's totally wrong. I was looking in the wrong directory. The ticket was correctly merged. Move along, nothing to see here... Dan -- --- Dan Drake - http://mat

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Dan Drake
All long doctests pass on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04. On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 at 02:10PM +0700, Mike Hansen wrote: > #7089: Dan Drake: refactor SAGE_ROOT/makefile [Reviewed by Tim Dumol] Looking in the 4.2.alpha0 tarball, I don't see that this actually got merged. The makefile is the same as 4.1.2. Dan --

[sage-devel] Re: Problem executing cell contents in version 4.1.2

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:12 AM, lutusp wrote: > > On Oct 19, 10:19 am, William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, lutusp wrote: >> >> > Hi all. Just downloaded 4.1.2 for Fedora 11. When I start the notebook >> > server, everything is fine -- the worksheets get converted and plac

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Bill Page wrote: >> >> William, >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM, you wrote: >>> Bill Page wrote: I think it is also useful to increase video memory to the minimum 7 Mb. required for seamless

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > William, > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM, you wrote: >> Bill Page wrote: >>> I think it is also useful to increase video memory to the minimum 7 >>> Mb. required for seamless mode. I tried this since I usually prefer to >>> run in this mod

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
William, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM, you wrote: > Bill Page wrote: >> I think it is also useful to increase video memory to the minimum 7 >> Mb. required for seamless mode. I tried this since I usually prefer to >> run in this mode where the linux system seems to share the same >> desktop as

[sage-devel] Re: Sage env -- RM="rm"?

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Tim Dumol wrote: > > The same problem happened with GLPK's spkg, to note. I'm personally OK with the change you suggest. Post a patch (to the repo in local/bin/) and I'll referee it. William > > On Oct 20, 5:26 am, Tim Dumol wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I am currentl

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > Works fine on OSX 10.5 Intel.  Only thing is that there are two > messages that pop up telling me where to open the browser, instead of > just one, when I first start the VM, and in any case they seem > redundant if there is already an alias

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread kcrisman
Works fine on OSX 10.5 Intel. Only thing is that there are two messages that pop up telling me where to open the browser, instead of just one, when I first start the VM, and in any case they seem redundant if there is already an alias on the desktop to Sea Monkey. - kcrisman --~--~-~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Kiran Kedlaya
All long doctests pass under 64-bit Fedora 10. Kiran On Oct 19, 3:10 am, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello all, > > Sage 4.2.alpha0 is out.  Source and binary areavailable at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0/sage-...http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/releas

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Bill Page wrote: > > William, > > Here are a few first impressions: > > Maybe a significant point to make here is that it is not necessary to > be running Windows in order to import this virtual machine into > VirtualBox. A linux or OSX machine will do just as wel

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
William, Here are a few first impressions: Maybe a significant point to make here is that it is not necessary to be running Windows in order to import this virtual machine into VirtualBox. A linux or OSX machine will do just as well. There are times that one might want such a small, independent

[sage-devel] Re: [codenode-devel] Re: New Features! Updated live notebook. Support for Sage!

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dorian Raymer wrote: > Hi Stan, > I looked in to the solve problem and I get the same error. > > Solve does work when I log into the server and use Sage from the command > line, and it works from the codenode notebook on my local linux install, so > I am slightly

[sage-devel] Re: sage releases

2009-10-19 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:49:18AM +0200, Burcin Erocal wrote: > > I wonder if the "lieutenant" model used by Linux kernel development > > might be helpful here? If there was one or two people (lieutenants) > > responsible for each broad area of Sage, and trusted to merge patches, Somehow, that'

[sage-devel] Re: [codenode-devel] Re: New Features! Updated live notebook. Support for Sage!

2009-10-19 Thread Alex Clemesha
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Dorian Raymer wrote: > Hi Stan, > I looked in to the solve problem and I get the same error. > > Solve does work when I log into the server and use Sage from the command > line, and it works from the codenode notebook on my local linux install, so > I am slightly

[sage-devel] Re: [codenode-devel] Re: New Features! Updated live notebook. Support for Sage!

2009-10-19 Thread Dorian Raymer
Hi Stan, I looked in to the solve problem and I get the same error. Solve does work when I log into the server and use Sage from the command line, and it works from the codenode notebook on my local linux install, so I am slightly baffled. Does William or another sage person have any idea what wo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, mhampton wrote: > > I think I figured it out using ifconfig.  The virtual sage session > incorrectly detected the ip address.  I have "eth0" and a "eth1" > addresses, and it gave me the eth1 number.  Using the eth0 number > works. Interesting. That's really weir

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Oct 19, 11:29 pm, William Stein wrote: >> Harald, can you post the sage_vbox here to the list of binaries for >> windows for 4.1.2 onhttp://sagemath.org? > > Yes, I'll add it to the mirrors. Tell me if you change it, (or is the > read

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Jaap Spies
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello all, > > Sage 4.2.alpha0 is out. Source and binary areavailable at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0/sage-4.2.alpha0.tar > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0sage-4.2.alpha0-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 19, 11:29 pm, William Stein wrote: > Harald, can you post the sage_vbox here to the list of binaries for > windows for 4.1.2 onhttp://sagemath.org? Yes, I'll add it to the mirrors. Tell me if you change it, (or is the readme now included?) so that i can update it. H --~--~-~--~--

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread mhampton
I think I figured it out using ifconfig. The virtual sage session incorrectly detected the ip address. I have "eth0" and a "eth1" addresses, and it gave me the eth1 number. Using the eth0 number works. -Marshall On Oct 19, 3:46 pm, mhampton wrote: > Seems to work well, at least in the virtua

[sage-devel] Re: Sage env -- RM="rm"?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Dumol
The same problem happened with GLPK's spkg, to note. On Oct 20, 5:26 am, Tim Dumol wrote: > Hey, > > I am currently trying to build a `jpeg-7` spkg on Arch Linux x86_64, > but I've had problems with $RM > > {{{ > ... > checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... rm: cannot remove > `conf

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread mhampton
Seems to work well, at least in the virtual machine. I can't seem to access it in my windows firefox though, nor can I ssh into it as the popup directs. Speed seems pretty good, I'm impressed. I had trouble with the vmware image on the machine I am testing it on, this seems better and easier.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Oct 19, 9:37 pm, William Stein wrote: >> The files in sage_vbox-4.1.2 are already gzip compressed squashfs >> images > > ok, that's good. compressing compressed data is useless and yes, speed > is more important than a few MB + or -.

[sage-devel] Sage env -- RM="rm"?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Dumol
Hey, I am currently trying to build a `jpeg-7` spkg on Arch Linux x86_64, but I've had problems with $RM {{{ ... checking if gcc -std=gnu99 supports -c -o file.o... rm: cannot remove `conftest*': No such file or directory ... }}} etc. Full log here: http://sage.pastebin.com/m94e6767 Doing: {

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 19, 9:37 pm, William Stein wrote: > The files in sage_vbox-4.1.2 are already gzip compressed squashfs > images ok, that's good. compressing compressed data is useless and yes, speed is more important than a few MB + or -. More important would be a scerencast, virtually holding the hand of

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Oct 19, 8:32 pm, William Stein wrote: >> It's a 659MB download.  However, once you download and extract the >> zip, the resulting files still only use 659MB. > > Just curious, is there any compression at all? No. I zipped it with

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
William, In spite of missing the readme, installation is very easy. If you already have VirtualBox installed just use File/Import Applicance et voila! Sage-in-five-minutes. Puppy linux looks nice but maybe is just a little daunting to the anyone who hasn't previously used linux on a virtual mach

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Bill Page wrote: > > William, > > Did you include the readme ? I don't see it after extraction. > > Regards, > Bill Page. I've attached it to this email, and uploaded a new version that contains it. -- William > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, William Stein

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Harald Schilly
On Oct 19, 8:32 pm, William Stein wrote: > It's a 659MB download.  However, once you download and extract the > zip, the resulting files still only use 659MB. Just curious, is there any compression at all? It might be worthwhile testing 7z (which you can get in windows very easy via 7-zip.org) -

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Page
William, Did you include the readme ? I don't see it after extraction. Regards, Bill Page. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Hello, > > Despite sage_vmware-*.zip being bar far the most popular Sage > download, we will not be distributing Sage as a vmware image anymore.

[sage-devel] Sage in VirtualBox

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
Hello, Despite sage_vmware-*.zip being bar far the most popular Sage download, we will not be distributing Sage as a vmware image anymore. Over the weekend I created a Sage distribution aimed at Windows users based on "puppy Linux" using Virtual Box: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/ws

[sage-devel] Re: Problem executing cell contents in version 4.1.2

2009-10-19 Thread lutusp
On Oct 19, 10:19 am, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, lutusp wrote: > > > Hi all. Just downloaded 4.1.2 for Fedora 11. When I start the notebook > > server, everything is fine -- the worksheets get converted and placed > > in the new directory sage_notebook.sagenb, then I

[sage-devel] Re: SCons in Sage

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > brandon.bar...@gmail.com wrote: >> The SCons wiki even seems to be trying to say cmake is better: >> http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools ;-)  I have no >> opinion myself, other than the problems you have already outlined; >

[sage-devel] Re: Problem executing cell contents in version 4.1.2

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, lutusp wrote: > > Hi all. Just downloaded 4.1.2 for Fedora 11. When I start the notebook > server, everything is fine -- the worksheets get converted and placed > in the new directory sage_notebook.sagenb, then I can load a > worksheet. But when I try to execute a

[sage-devel] Re: SCons in Sage

2009-10-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
brandon.bar...@gmail.com wrote: > The SCons wiki even seems to be trying to say cmake is better: > http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools ;-) I have no > opinion myself, other than the problems you have already outlined; > another dev I know has also expressed his dislike of it, but he

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Solaris - now builds 'out of the box' with gcc 4.4.1

2009-10-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
brandon.bar...@gmail.com wrote: > On the latest opensolaris running on amd64 and using gcc 4.4.1 I did > hit the bug you mentioned, but in sqlite (running the gnu autotools > again for sqlite did not seem to help): > > > ar cru .libs/libsqlite3.a sqlite3.o > ranlib .libs/libsqlite3.a > creating

[sage-devel] Problem executing cell contents in version 4.1.2

2009-10-19 Thread lutusp
Hi all. Just downloaded 4.1.2 for Fedora 11. When I start the notebook server, everything is fine -- the worksheets get converted and placed in the new directory sage_notebook.sagenb, then I can load a worksheet. But when I try to execute a cell, I get this error message: NameError: name 'sagenb'

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 19, 12:10 am, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello all, > > Sage 4.2.alpha0 is out.  Source and binary areavailable at When installing on Mac OS X 10.5, either 32 or 64 bit, I see this at the very beginning: ./install: line 131: PIL: command not found There are two problems with line 131: it sa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Solaris - now builds 'out of the box' with gcc 4.4.1

2009-10-19 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
On the latest opensolaris running on amd64 and using gcc 4.4.1 I did hit the bug you mentioned, but in sqlite (running the gnu autotools again for sqlite did not seem to help): ar cru .libs/libsqlite3.a sqlite3.o ranlib .libs/libsqlite3.a creating libsqlite3.la (cd .libs && rm -f libsqlite3.la

[sage-devel] Re: SCons in Sage

2009-10-19 Thread brandon.bar...@gmail.com
The SCons wiki even seems to be trying to say cmake is better: http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsVsOtherBuildTools ;-) I have no opinion myself, other than the problems you have already outlined; another dev I know has also expressed his dislike of it, but he cannot be trusted in this matter since h

[sage-devel] Re: Error rebuilding MPIR and ATLAS

2009-10-19 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Pablo Angulo wrote: > > Hello: After an "Illegal instruction" error, I tried to rebuild MPIR and > ATLAS (as explained in > http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#Otherquestions), but make failed, with the > following log: > > > /bin/ls: cannot access bzip2-*-install: No su

[sage-devel] Error rebuilding MPIR and ATLAS

2009-10-19 Thread Pablo Angulo
Hello: After an "Illegal instruction" error, I tried to rebuild MPIR and ATLAS (as explained in http://wiki.sagemath.org/faq#Otherquestions), but make failed, with the following log: /bin/ls: cannot access bzip2-*-install: No such file or directory /bin/ls: cannot access dir-*-install: No such f

[sage-devel] Re: sage notebook servers

2009-10-19 Thread Joaquim Puig
 1. Where?     (E.g., "Dept. of Mathematics, University of Maryland") Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics (FME) Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC) Barcelona, Catalonia-Spain >    2. Why?   (E.g, "for our Math 411 course on differential equations") Presently we are using it to allow

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Jaap Spies
Pat LeSmithe wrote: > On 10/19/2009 03:35 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: >> Upgrading from sage-4.1.2.rc2 failed on Fedora 11, 32 bit: >> >> env = pickle.load(picklefile) >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RedirStream' >> [j...@paix sage-4.1.2.rc2]$ > > Can you try deleting SAGE_ROO

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Pat LeSmithe
On 10/19/2009 03:35 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > Upgrading from sage-4.1.2.rc2 failed on Fedora 11, 32 bit: > > env = pickle.load(picklefile) > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RedirStream' > [j...@paix sage-4.1.2.rc2]$ Can you try deleting SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/doc/output and re

[sage-devel] Looking for a good name...

2009-10-19 Thread Florent Hivert
Dear all, I'm looking for a good name for the following concept: In several place in Sage, we need to build a set (ie a parent) which will generated some objects whose parents are actually a different set. Some examples: - I want to model the enumerated set of non negative integer or prim

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Jaap Spies
Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello all, > > Sage 4.2.alpha0 is out. Source and binary areavailable at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0/sage-4.2.alpha0.tar > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0sage-4.2.alpha0-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-

[sage-devel] SCons in Sage

2009-10-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
What is the view of others on the use of SCons in code in Sage? Personally I've come to the opinion that it is more trouble than it is worth. It may be that few people know how to use it properly, in which case you might ask why do they use it. I do not use a chainsaw, as I do not know how to u

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Solaris - now builds 'out of the box' with gcc 4.4.1

2009-10-19 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
solarg wrote: > hello all, > is there any binaries for solaris/x86 (or amd64) that i can download > somewhere? > > thanks in advance, > > gerard I do not know if there is. There were, but when one goes to the download page http://www.sagemath.org/download.html and click 'Solaris binaries'

[sage-devel] Re: html5 video in the notebook

2009-10-19 Thread Wilfried Huss
William Stein schrieb: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Wilfried Huss > wrote: > >> I have problems using the html5 tag with the notebook. >> >> Linking to an external video file works as expected. But if I >> try to use an ogg theora video, which is uploaded into the DATA >> directory, as

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Solaris - now builds 'out of the box' with gcc 4.4.1

2009-10-19 Thread solarg
hello all, is there any binaries for solaris/x86 (or amd64) that i can download somewhere? thanks in advance, gerard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-

[sage-devel] Re: Grant Ideas: sage days workshops

2009-10-19 Thread Rado
+1 for workshop on error-correcting codes. One thing I can contribute to such a workshop (if it is accepted) is adding improved Feng-Rao (aka order bounds) algorithms for min. distance of AG codes, developed by my advisor Iwan Duursma and me. Currently we have standalone code in Python, which mean

[sage-devel] Sage 4.2.alpha0 released

2009-10-19 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello all, Sage 4.2.alpha0 is out. Source and binary areavailable at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0/sage-4.2.alpha0.tar http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/release/4.2/alpha0sage-4.2.alpha0-sage.math.washington.edu-x86_64-Linux.tar.gz The upgrade path