[sage-devel] OpenSSL issue *may* be solved on Solaris.

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
After reading http://blogs.sun.com/janp/entry/on_openssl_versions_in_solaris I discovered that Sun do ship Open SSL 0.9.7, complete with any security fixes, with Solaris. Sun obviously have some agreement with the OpenSSL developers, as they will know of security vunrabilites before they are made

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Nick Alexander
On 31-Jan-10, at 11:35 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander wrote: Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a *product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation, or maintaining the web site and we have an inferior project, b

[sage-devel] Buildbot

2010-01-31 Thread Pat LeSmithe
Does anyone here have experience configuring and managing a Buildbot system? http://buildbot.net/trac http://djmitche.github.com/buildbot/docs/latest/ To enable continuous, automated builds on several platforms, we could * Set up a meta-repository of the Sage Mercurial repositories and spkgs.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander wrote: >Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a >*product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation, >or maintaining the web site and we have an inferior project, but we >still have a project. Take away supp

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPIR 1.3.0 released (at last)

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jan-30 11:51:08 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: >Bill Hart wrote: >> Cause of what David? MPIR 1.3.0 works absolutely fine on t2 if you set >> the library paths correctly. > >I'm not convinced it should be necessary to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH like >that. It is not with other 64-bit applicati

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MPIR supported Architectures/Compilers/OSes

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 17:21, Bill Hart wrote: > Hmm, the link could help: > > http://mpir.org/supported.html > > It's not on the main MPIR webpage yet, as this is a proposal, which > will need approval of the MPIR devels, after a period of discussion. > > Bill. Under: "Architectures we might like t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 05:51, Tim Lahey wrote: > Solaris isn't exactly an "unusual" architecture. That's what he's done the > most at > supporting. He certainly has done "a LOT" at supporting it. I think what he's > asking > that Bill not purposely break FLINT since it does currently work. If was

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 06:02, Nick Alexander wrote: >> I hate to think that the only people that are valid contributors to Sage >> are >> mathematicians. So, doing the release management, fixing bugs, >> documentation, or >> maintaining the web site aren't important? > > Not at all.  But take away ma

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Nick Alexander
By and large, we are a community of mathematicians. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you are not contributing to the mathematical aspects of Sage. Until that changes, your goals and my goals are only occasionally aligned. I hate to think that the only people that are valid contributors to S

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Tim Lahey
On 02-01-2010, at 12:45 AM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > I take issue with the claim that you have done "a LOT" for Sage. Let me be > clear: I appreciate the effort you put into porting Sage to other > architectures. But I question how many people are interested in actually > using Sage on thos

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Nick Alexander
I think I've done a LOT for Sage - I would request you do not purposely break the PA-RISC support in MPIR, when it clearly passes all your self tests on HP-UX. I do not believe thiat is an unreasonable request. I take issue with the claim that you have done "a LOT" for Sage. Let me be clear:

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 04:53, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi David, > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > > > >> You have several options. >> >> 1) William has a virtual machine I believe. > > I vaguely recall a machine called "disk.math" or something that runs > OpenSolaris. Yes, that

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 14:27, Bill Hart wrote: > I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw > its grave. > > Here is one of the many obituaries: > > http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 The latest release of HP-UX was September 2009 - 4 months

Re: [sage-devel] Trac problem

2010-01-31 Thread Pat LeSmithe
On 01/31/2010 04:05 AM, Simon King wrote: > When working on some trac tickets, I found that the "preview" button > does not work. > > Trac claimed that it was an invalid operation. Afterwards, when This *may* have happened during a server-side change, e.g., while configuring a plug-in. > returni

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > You have several options. > > 1) William has a virtual machine I believe. I vaguely recall a machine called "disk.math" or something that runs OpenSolaris. > 2) You can install it in VirtualBox. That is possible. My local mach

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 21:20, Jaap Spies wrote: > Jaap Spies wrote: >> >> Hi c++ experts, >> >> My C++ is a little bit rusty, so I'll ask here. >> Any thoughts? >> >> Jaap >> >> >> > > Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Please help. > > jaap Certainly not on my ban list - in fact nobody

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 21:28, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Jaap, > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > > > >> Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? > > Certainly not. Not on mine. > > >> Please help. > > I'm very new with OpenSolaris. But is there an OpenSolaris machine > somew

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 14:27, Bill Hart wrote: > I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw > its grave. > > Here is one of the many obituaries: > > http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 > > I see you suggested Sage switch to GMP for an HP-UX por

Re: [sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 22:57, chris wuthrich wrote: > Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. > > We had a big problem with our heating in our house a few weeks ago, > exactly when it is was so freezing cold in Nottingham that they were > talking about "the coldest winter". I imagined

Re: [sage-devel] Our problems solved - OpenSSL is compatible with GPL !!

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 03:26, David Roe wrote: > Note that the OpenSSL license is in the section of that page outlining > licenses incompatible with the GPL.  Here's the summary of OpenSSL on that > page: > > The license of OpenSSL is a conjunction of two licenses, one of them being > the license of S

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 1 February 2010 03:33, David Kirkby wrote: > On 31 January 2010 21:53, Minh Nguyen wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm happy to announce that Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 [1] successfully builds >> on t2.math. Due to an unfortunate typo, the version number should be >> Sage 4.3.0.2.alpha1 since it's based on

Re: [sage-devel] Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
On 31 January 2010 21:53, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm happy to announce that Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 [1] successfully builds > on t2.math. Due to an unfortunate typo, the version number should be > Sage 4.3.0.2.alpha1 since it's based on Sage 4.3.0.1 [2]. This alpha > release is based on Sa

Re: [sage-devel] Our problems solved - OpenSSL is compatible with GPL !!

2010-01-31 Thread David Roe
Note that the OpenSSL license is in the section of that page outlining licenses incompatible with the GPL. Here's the summary of OpenSSL on that page: The license of OpenSSL is a conjunction of two licenses, one of them being the license of SSLeay. You must follow both. The combination results in

[sage-devel] Our problems solved - OpenSSL is compatible with GPL !!

2010-01-31 Thread David Kirkby
I believe our problems are solved reguards the OpenSSL / GPL issue. Follow this logic. 1) The GPL is copyright the Free Software Federation. It says that at the top of the GPL license. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt 2) The Free Sofware Federation contain a list of licenses compatible wi

[sage-devel] arm compile sage

2010-01-31 Thread Joshua Herman
Just curious how this is going if anyone has given up or its still happening. -- 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.google

[sage-devel] SageIDE/MathPiperIDE: another way to make a desktop app for Sage

2010-01-31 Thread Ted Kosan
Since the topic of desktop-based apps for Sage has come up recently on this list, I thought it might be a good time to point out that a very good way to create a desktop-based GUI for Sage is to use one of the open source Java IDEs as a foundation. This is what I did when I created SageIDE a coupl

[sage-devel] Re: sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread mhampton
Given the climate here in Duluth, I would be happy to host a build farm in my house... -Marshall On Jan 31, 5:23 pm, Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Sunday 31 January 2010, chris wuthrich wrote: > > > Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. > > > We had a big problem with our heatin

[sage-devel] Re: Unknown control sequence '\texttt'

2010-01-31 Thread John H Palmieri
On Jan 31, 1:37 pm, lutusp wrote: > > Then why do you bother posting things that look like requests for > > help? > > In the hope that someone will fix the source, rather than offer new > patches? This is contradictory: the way the source gets fixed is that people post patches, and then other peo

Re: [sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Sunday 31 January 2010, chris wuthrich wrote: > Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. > > We had a big problem with our heating in our house a few weeks ago, > exactly when it is was so freezing cold in Nottingham that they were > talking about "the coldest winter". I imagine

Re: [sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Chris, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:57 AM, chris wuthrich wrote: > Sage has > so many useful applications ! No one knows more about this than David Kirkby [1] :-) Sage: creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab, preventing frozen water pipes and ke

[sage-devel] sage keeps me warm

2010-01-31 Thread chris wuthrich
Sorry for the spam; but I thought I'd share it with you. We had a big problem with our heating in our house a few weeks ago, exactly when it is was so freezing cold in Nottingham that they were talking about "the coldest winter". I imagined it is going to be a bit difficult to sleep when I could s

[sage-devel] Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, I'm happy to announce that Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha1 [1] successfully builds on t2.math. Due to an unfortunate typo, the version number should be Sage 4.3.0.2.alpha1 since it's based on Sage 4.3.0.1 [2]. This alpha release is based on Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha0 and merged the following tickets: #777

Re: [sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-01-31 Thread Tim Lahey
On 01-31-2010, at 4:29 PM, Andy Somogyi wrote: > Hello All > > Here is a link to a prototype sage desktop app for the Mac. > > http://numerator.sourceforge.net/SageApp.dmg > > Its 100% native, Cocoa model / view application. On startup, it creates a > background process with the sage notebook

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Implementation of conjugacy classes

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Dear Javier, On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:01:07PM -0800, javier wrote: > The implementation of the conjugacy classes is now ticket #7886: > http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7886 I went through your patch, and am definitely +1 on the overall design and user interface! Here are some sugge

[sage-devel] Re: Unknown control sequence '\texttt'

2010-01-31 Thread lutusp
> Then why do you bother posting things that look like requests for > help? In the hope that someone will fix the source, rather than offer new patches? It's not as though it hasn't been reported yet, or discussed yet, and several new releases have gone by without resolution. Meanwhile I'll get ar

[sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Jaap Spies
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi Jaap, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Certainly not. Not on mine. Thanks! Please help. I'm very new with OpenSolaris. But is there an OpenSolaris machine somewhere I could use to help? I use

[sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-01-31 Thread Andy Somogyi
Hello All Here is a link to a prototype sage desktop app for the Mac. http://numerator.sourceforge.net/SageApp.dmg Its 100% native, Cocoa model / view application. On startup, it creates a background process with the sage notebook server, and users can open as many windows as they want to it.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Jaap, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jaap Spies wrote: > Ok, I seem to be on the ban list of everybody? Certainly not. Not on mine. > Please help. I'm very new with OpenSolaris. But is there an OpenSolaris machine somewhere I could use to help? -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post

[sage-devel] Re: c++ question related to porting sage to Open Solaris

2010-01-31 Thread Jaap Spies
Jaap Spies wrote: Hi c++ experts, My C++ is a little bit rusty, so I'll ask here. Building matplotlib, pynac, scipy and scipysandbox fail in the end with /usr/local/gcc-4.4.2/lib/gcc/i386-pc-solaris2.11/4.4.2/../../../../include/c++/4.4.2/bits/char_traits.h: In static member function ‘static

Re: [sage-devel] sage-mode and indentation

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:09:24AM -0800, Nick Alexander wrote: > Why don't you update the sage-mode wiki ... Upon googling for the wiki, the first hit was: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Sage_Mode "Sage Mode is the result of using natural energy along with a ninja's normal

Re: [sage-devel] sage-mode and indentation

2010-01-31 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:58:28PM +, John Cremona wrote: > Some of those might have come from me since I use emacs and I edited > some combinat docstrings recently (they were giveing errors when > building the docs). Those we just fixed were from someone else :-) > I would like to have emacs

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
Ah! http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/266916-red-hat-pulls-plug-on-itanium-with-rhel-6 That leaves debian, which still supports it officially, unofficial support on Ubuntu and support for ia32 on SUSE. But that leads me to question the future of ia64 itself. I don't personally

[sage-devel] possible singular bug?

2010-01-31 Thread John Cremona
The following example sage: p = 17 sage: F = GF(p) sage: P2. = ProjectiveSpace(F,2) sage: C = Curve(X^2+Y^2-Z^2) sage: len(C.rational_points()) 18 sage: C.rational_points(algorithm='bn') --- RuntimeError

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
OK, I did some reading and I now see the point of the question. At this point I don't see any problem with Linux on Itanium 2. For example the gcc build farm contains an Itanium 2 (though no longer an Itanium), and gcc itself support Itanium 2, as does the assembler (obviously). Are there any art

[sage-devel] Re: MPIR supported Architectures/Compilers/OSes

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
Hmm, the link could help: http://mpir.org/supported.html It's not on the main MPIR webpage yet, as this is a proposal, which will need approval of the MPIR devels, after a period of discussion. Bill. On Jan 31, 5:17 pm, Bill Hart wrote: > I've made a page of Architectures/Compilers/OSes that M

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
I've posted a list of arches/compilers/OSes that MPIR currently does/ perhaps should support, in another thread. That should answer the question, I think. On Jan 31, 3:28 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bill Hart > wrote: > > I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That

[sage-devel] MPIR supported Architectures/Compilers/OSes

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
I've made a page of Architectures/Compilers/OSes that MPIR should recognise, along with a *proposed* categorisation according to how much attention the MPIR developers do/should pay to each. I'm posting this to the mpir-devel and sage-devel lists for comment, as this is just as relevant for the Sa

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bill Hart wrote: > I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw > its grave. > > Here is one of the many obituaries: > > http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 > > I see you suggested Sage switch to GMP for an HP

[sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Bill Hart
I don't see any point listing HP-UX. That platform died in 2004. I saw its grave. Here is one of the many obituaries: http://www.chillingeffects.org/responses/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1460 I see you suggested Sage switch to GMP for an HP-UX port. Well, not only will MPIR not be supporting HP-UX, but

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Drake
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 at 10:15AM +, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > 3) Change Sage so that the hashlib module of python is not essential > for a functioning Sage. That is I suspect the easiest option. I > don't claim to understand how Sage builds fully, but I would have > thought crypto support was not

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > William Stein wrote: > Personally, I do not believe it is legal to ship OpenSSL and for Sage to > remain GPL, unless you could get the python developers agree to add an > clause that permits linking against OpenSSL. > > http://www.openssl

[sage-devel] Re: Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Jaap Spies
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: [snipped] Fair enough. I mis understood this. But I still think we should not let someone upgrade Sage with a version different to what they used to build it. -1 I've a system wide install of sage upgraded 86 times: [r...@paix installed]# ls sage-* sage-1.5.1.2 sage-

[sage-devel] Trac problem

2010-01-31 Thread Simon King
Hi! When working on some trac tickets, I found that the "preview" button does not work. Trac claimed that it was an invalid operation. Afterwards, when returning to the trac ticket, "assign to SimonKing" was ticked, while it should have been "leaving needs_review". Are others experiencing simila

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Martin Albrecht wrote: The only place I know it's used is to serve up secure notebooks, but I bet its used elsewhere too. I see another option IF that is all, then that hardly seems a major loss of functionality. I bet most people don't use the secure notebooks anyway. I can see they have adva

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Martin Albrecht
> > The only place I know it's used is to serve up secure notebooks, but I > > bet its used elsewhere too. I see another option > > IF that is all, then that hardly seems a major loss of functionality. I bet > most people don't use the secure notebooks anyway. I can see they have > advantages th

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was not actually suggesting shipping OpenSSL, as I knew there were license implications. But I think you would have to agree it is pretty annoying for someone to download Sage, start a build,

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Alex Ghitza wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. Basically, two people have found

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Web Service / UI

2010-01-31 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:21 AM, David Joyner wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Ivan Andrus wrote: >> On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:17 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > ... > http://math.byu.edu/~gvol/files/fluidium_app-0.1.spkg >>> >>> This doesn't work either (imac, 10.6.2). >> >> Hmm. It

[sage-devel] Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
http://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms is very out of date. This is no criticism o the web master - I know only too well it is next to impossible to keep a web site up to date. Here are the points. 1) Solaris 9 on Sparc 32 bit (ongoing, getting close, mabshoff is working on this) Truth

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that > updates > are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build > gcc > in the first placed. Basically, two people have found > > 1)

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jan 31, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was not actually suggesting shipping OpenSSL, as I knew there were license implications. But I think you would have to agree it is pretty annoying for someone to download Sage, start a build, then the build fail d

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: 3) Change Sage so that the hashlib module of python is not essential for a functioning Sage. That is I suspect the easiest option. I don't claim to understand how Sage builds fully, but I would have thought crypto support was not a requirement. What I mean is, that a

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I was not actually suggesting shipping OpenSSL, as I knew there were license implications. But I think you would have to agree it is pretty annoying for someone to download Sage, start a build, then the build fail due to lack of OpenSSL. I do not believe this issue is

Re: [sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. I mean update Sage with the same version of gcc - not update gcc with the same version!

[sage-devel] Should updates only be permitted with same gcc version?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
The issue reported on sage-support makes me think we should insist that updates are performed with the same version of gcc as that which was used to build gcc in the first placed. Basically, two people have found 1) Install Sage with older gcc. 2) Install the latest gcc 4.4.3 3) Try to update S

Re: [sage-devel] Should SSL support be checked in 'prereq' ?

2010-01-31 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Starting to build Sage, then finding the python builds, but finds to find the hashlib module is a bit irritating. There is is a specific test for this in spkg-install. - # Make sure sufficie