[sage-devel] Re: GR package

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Dodier
On Feb 4, 9:49 pm, William Stein wrote: > There are numerous packages for Mathematica for doing tensor calculus. > I can't comment on whether or not they are "easily usable" (is any > interesting mathematics or physics "easy"?). Hrm, well, one could drive the proverbial truck through that openi

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] GR package

2010-02-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:49 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Dox wrote: >> Hi people! >> As some of you may know I'm a physicist. One of my complains to >> Mathematica is the lack of an easily usable tensor package, specially >> for those (like me) interested in General

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] GR package

2010-02-04 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Dox wrote: > Hi people! > As some of you may know I'm a physicist. One of my complains to > Mathematica is the lack of an easily usable tensor package, specially > for those (like me) interested in General Relativity calculations. > > Does a package like that exist

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.0.1.alpha3 released for SPARC Solaris 10 (t2.math with GCC)

2010-02-04 Thread John H Palmieri
On Feb 3, 11:33 pm, Dr David Kirkby wrote: > > Than you for finding this error John. It's strange, I never se this on > Solaris myself, though William says he has seen it before on Linux. > IHopefully, this bug can be squashed, though it is not as serious as > the one which is stopping Sage buildi

[sage-devel] Re: Rips complex in Sage?

2010-02-04 Thread kcrisman
> It also says it needs Cmake Cmake 2.4.8 is actually a current experimental spkg, but Dionysos says it needs 2.6 or above. -- 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 o

[sage-devel] Re: Rips complex in Sage?

2010-02-04 Thread kcrisman
> > Anyway. I really think Sage could use more topology related tools. And > since Dionysos comes with Python bindings, I think it would be a nice > project to combine with Sage. > Dionysos apparently needs Boost 1.36 or greater, but we ship 1.34 (again, just according to http://www.sagemath.org/p

[sage-devel] Re: Handling spkgs primarily developed by Sage developers for Sage

2010-02-04 Thread kcrisman
> > If you have an spkg foo and type > >     sage -f -m foo.spkg > > then it will not be deleted from spkg/build/ after the install completes. Yes, robertwb had privately told me that before. I was thinking that it might be worth having this happen in *all* builds from scratch, so that one might

Re: [sage-devel] 4.3.2.rc0 failing on Solaris as R needs iconv.

2010-02-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Should I reopen #3381 for this, or create a new bug report? Please open a new ticket. A golden rule is to refrain from re-opening a ticket that is already closed. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send

Re: [sage-devel] 4.3.2.rc0 failing on Solaris as R needs iconv.

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I raised this issue back in 2008 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3381 that R needs a powerful version of iconv - the one supplied by Sun is not sufficiently powerful. This is documented in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual. http://cran.r-projec

[sage-devel] 4.3.2.rc0 failing on Solaris as R needs iconv.

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I raised this issue back in 2008 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3381 that R needs a powerful version of iconv - the one supplied by Sun is not sufficiently powerful. This is documented in the 'R Installation and Administration' manual. http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: Does this look right? http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/8185/8185-numerical-noise.patch Yes. Looks like another thing coming from Solaris having a non-optimal literal value for e (exp(1), decimal floating point literals, etc.). I'd much rather fix

[sage-devel] Re: syntax highlighting in the notebook

2010-02-04 Thread Maurizio
Maybe I should not talk because I have no idea on how CodeMirror and BeSpin work, but I would say that I'd think more than twice before choosing CodeMirror instead of BeSpin, for this reason: 1) BeSpin is anyway sponsored (or at least hosted) by Mozilla, which is a fairly decent guarantee of mid-te

[sage-devel] Re: Rips complex in Sage?

2010-02-04 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 4 Feb., 21:18, Mike Hansen wrote: ... > On a less direct note, from scanning the conversation Simon links to, > the construction he describes is not the Rips complex, but rather the > Cech complex (which is defined as the nerve of the collection of > discs). In persistent homology Rips com

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:34:03 +1100, Minh Nguyen wrote: > In the past [1] I expressed an interest in maintaining a "conservative > release". That was before I realized that release management is a > full-time job. Looking back, it's really is a full-time job. Perhaps > not to other people. But I gue

[sage-devel] Re: Help needed reviewing/testing new mpmath version in Sage

2010-02-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 4, 11:15 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > hg qseries should list two applied patches now! sorry, i mean hg qapplied -- 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] Re: Help needed reviewing/testing new mpmath version in Sage

2010-02-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 4, 10:01 pm, ross k wrote: > So do we...? > 1) download the mpmath-0.14.spkg via the link > 2) cd $SAGE_ROOT > 3) ./sage -f mpmath-0.14.spkg yes - and look out for compile errors, strange warnings, ... > 4) ./sage -hg qimport > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/8159/mp

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Nick Alexander
On 4-Feb-10, at 1:34 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Comments ? In the past [1] I expressed an interest in maintaining a "conservative release". That was before I realized that release management is a full-time job. Looking back,

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Comments ? In the past [1] I expressed an interest in maintaining a "conservative release". That was before I realized that release management is a full-time job. Looking back, it's really is a full-time job. Perhaps not to o

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Handling spkgs primarily developed by Sage developers for Sage

2010-02-04 Thread William Stein
2010/2/4 kcrisman : > > >> >> I strongly support this.  Judging by how solid my tests are with >> >> 4.3.2 >> >> already, the 4.3.2 release will definitely be happening this >> >> Saturday. >> >>   I'm highly impressed with how efficiently Minh is handling the >> >> 4.3.2 >> >> release cycle. >> >>

[sage-devel] Handling spkgs primarily developed by Sage developers for Sage

2010-02-04 Thread kcrisman
> >> I strongly support this.  Judging by how solid my tests are with   > >> 4.3.2 > >> already, the 4.3.2 release will definitely be happening this   > >> Saturday. > >>   I'm highly impressed with how efficiently Minh is handling the   > >> 4.3.2 > >> release cycle. > > >>> I would really like

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Does this look right? http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/8185/8185-numerical-noise.patch I think you know this already, but it doesn't hurt to explicitly say so here. The commit must be

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi David, On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Does this look right? http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/8185/8185-numerical-noise.patch I think you know this already, but it doesn't hurt to explicitly sa

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Does this look right? > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/8185/8185-numerical-noise.patch I think you know this already, but it doesn't hurt to explicitly say so here. The commit must be on one line. That

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Help needed reviewing/testing new mpmath version in Sage

2010-02-04 Thread ross k
So to test this do we download and install the spkg to sage.4.3.2.rc0, apply the patch and do all doctests? (Sorry about this but is the following right? - until I review a few more tickets Im going to ask if Im doing the right thing at this low level. So do we...? 1) download the mpmath-0.14.spk

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I created a patch to fix a numerical noise issue. Expected: 0.85914091422952255 Got: 0.85914091422952277 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8185 After

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I created a patch to fix a numerical noise issue. Expected: 0.85914091422952255 Got: 0.85914091422952277 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8185 After doing this, I realised I'd put too many dots on the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Question about pickle in python

2010-02-04 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
Em 3 de fevereiro de 2010 19:00, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade escreveu: > On Jan 13, 8:08 am, François Bissey wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:35:16 Craig Citro wrote: >> >> > > If you work on getting this merged upstream as a bug that's a good >> > > selling point for us. We can produce a patc

[sage-devel] Rips complex in Sage?

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Hansen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dmitriy Morozov Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Rips complex in Sage? To: Mike Hansen Cc: sage-devel Excerpts from Mike Hansen's message of Thu Feb 04 14:24:54 -0500 2010: >On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Simon King wr

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I created a patch to fix a numerical noise issue. Expected: 0.85914091422952255 Got: 0.85914091422952277 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8185 After doing this, I realised I'd put too many dots on the end, so instead of the

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Robert Bradshaw
To answer the original question, the logic seems to be as follows: - For a major new feature, or if a year has passed, update x. - If we know of a significant feature that's going to be merged in ahead of time, update y. - Otherwise, update z. - Bugfix only, release x.y.z.w. Anyone is welcome

Re: [sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread John Cremona
You can edit the patch with a text editor if it is as trivial as this. And when you upload it again, you can opt to replace the earlier patch with the same name. John On 4 February 2010 20:03, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I created a patch to fix a numerical noise issue. > > Expected: >    0.85914

[sage-devel] Patch messup - how do I recover ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I created a patch to fix a numerical noise issue. Expected: 0.85914091422952255 Got: 0.85914091422952277 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8185 After doing this, I realised I'd put too many dots on the end, so instead of the two needed, I'd put three. 0.85914091422952... On

Re: [sage-devel] Rips complex in Sage?

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Hansen
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi! > > At > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/edcd7dc0e8be9aa5 > Eli posed a problem that -- as much as I understand -- can be tackled > using the Rips complex. A quick search suggests that it is not > provided by

Re: [sage-devel] How should @parallel be used?

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:55 AM, javier wrote: > the latest gets to print down the "computing Killing form" print, and > exits without any error and without saving any files. > > Is it possible to do the above with @parallel? I have tried looking > for documentation for that decorator, but

Re: [sage-devel] Where should I run 'hg' to patch a doc test?

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > but want to produce a proper Mercurial patch, rather than one using 'diff'. > What directory should I be in when I try to use Mercurial? (I'm using it > from inside Sage this time, rather than a copy of Mercurial installed on the >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Help needed reviewing/testing new mpmath version in Sage

2010-02-04 Thread Fredrik Johansson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi, I think for testing it would be best if there is an > mpmath-0.14.spkg ... That ensures that we all test exactly the same > configuration and it avoids errors that might happen after testing > when packing it together in an spkg. > > I c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
John Cremona wrote: Surely almost all Sage releases contain major new functionality! That's true. Personally I think an occasional bug-fix-only release would be useful. Where a release is planned to be a bug fix only. Even if they are very occasional, like every 6 months. Those 6-monthly

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread John Cremona
Surely almost all Sage releases contain major new functionality! Except very occasionally a release is followed by a quick emergency bug fix. And also rather occasionally there is a huge new feature. Thus I would expect that * most releases sage-x.y.z would increment y and reset z (to 0, or 1).

Re: [sage-devel] Where should I run 'hg' to patch a doc test?

2010-02-04 Thread John Cremona
>From the sage prompt use hg_sage.status() to see which files have changed, hg_sage.diff() to see the diffs, hg_sage.ci() to check them in (which will show you the diffs again) and hg_sage.export() to export the patch. Before the last step amke sure that you have a (small) .hgrc file in your home

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Skynet's Sun and ia64 machines - can any of these compile 4.3.2.alpha1?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: 2010/2/3 Dima Pasechnik : William, can I steal/clone your Sage installation there? Thanks! The sage-4.3.2.alpha0 was built with GCC-4.4.2. Now GCC-4.4.3 is installed on there, so got to start from scratch. If you believe that you need to start from scratch, then perhaps

[sage-devel] How should @parallel be used?

2010-02-04 Thread javier
Hi all, gotta do some computations involving a really big matrix, and need to save each row in a different file (matrix is too big to fit in memory). SInce every row can be computed independently I have tried to parallelize the computation. First, this is my original computation of the matrix (for

[sage-devel] Where should I run 'hg' to patch a doc test?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I've noted there is some numerical noise on sage/calculus/functional.py when run on a couple of SPARCs. File "/export/home/drkirkby/sage-4.3.0.1/devel/sage-main/build/sage/calculus/functional.py", line 195: sage: float(area) Expected: 0.85914091422952255 Got: 0.85914091422952277

[sage-devel] Re: cholmod.so: undefined symbol: _g95_filename (or gfortran_st_write_done) in cvxopt

2010-02-04 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Harald, I've fixed it, I think, and posted a patch on the corresponding ticket. That was a simple linking of dynamic libs issue. If you like I can take over the package - but I appreciate the feedback on the patch, one way or another. Best, Dmitrii On Feb 4, 9:22 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > On T

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Harald Schilly wrote: ...and to come back on topic: looking back, i think the best version number for Sage were the release dates (back in the early 0.x time). Today, a "-MM" string would be nice (adding a .1 if there is a second release in the same month). H I can't say I agree with that

[sage-devel] Re: Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On Feb 4, 4:02 pm, ross k wrote: > I recently attended an in-house promotion of the latest "major" > release of Matlab and I cant tell you how underwhelmed I was ... That sounds extremely boring. I think matlab's success is that they started very early and listened closely what the users needed -

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
ross k wrote: David (It sounded like you were a bit discouraged and I hope this doesnt sound condescending but...) No. I realise I am in a minority among Sage developers. I suspect my views might be a bit less of a minority on sage-support. But even there, I expect they will. You were righ

Re: [sage-devel] Segmentation Fault with sage/lfunctions/sympow.py

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I'm just running the test suite of Sage 4.3.0.1 on 't2'. This was not compiled on 't2', but on an old SPARC of mine. It is failing at this test. Has anyone got a build on 't2' they have created on 't2', and can confirm whether or not it passes or fails. sage -t "deve

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread ross k
David (It sounded like you were a bit discouraged and I hope this doesnt sound condescending but...) You were right to query - I believe we should always think it is legitimate to query how we might be able to do things be better. But now that we've had that discussion and its seems like things w

[sage-devel] Segmentation Fault with sage/lfunctions/sympow.py

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
I'm just running the test suite of Sage 4.3.0.1 on 't2'. This was not compiled on 't2', but on an old SPARC of mine. It is failing at this test. Has anyone got a build on 't2' they have created on 't2', and can confirm whether or not it passes or fails. sage -t "devel/sage-main/build/sage/lf

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

2010-02-04 Thread Pat LeSmithe
On Jan 28, 10:03 pm, Nils Bruin wrote: > On Jan 28, 1:01 pm, Mike Hansen wrote: > > You can easily createSVGplots as it is now: > > sage: p = plot(x^2, -2, 2) > > sage: p.save('xsquared.svg') > Interesting. In firefox 3.5.2, this actually does not work in the > notebook: What happens if you add

[sage-devel] Re: Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread kcrisman
> But even in a university environment, some people want something that does not > change as often. I'm not the first to make this point, and I doubt I'd be the > last. Perhaps asking on sage-support might have given a different view, as > that > would more likely to reach users who are not devel

[sage-devel] Rips complex in Sage?

2010-02-04 Thread Simon King
Hi! At http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/edcd7dc0e8be9aa5 Eli posed a problem that -- as much as I understand -- can be tackled using the Rips complex. A quick search suggests that it is not provided by Sage. Is there a sufficiently free (licence-wise etc) piece of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.2.rc0 released

2010-02-04 Thread John Cremona
All tests pass on 64-bit ubuntu except sage -t -long devel/sage/sage/plot/plot3d/plot_field3d.py but that passes when I re-try it. All pass on 32-but Suse. John On 4 February 2010 12:46, mhampton wrote: > All tests pass on my intel mac running 10.4.11. > > -Marshall > > -- > To post to this g

[sage-devel] Re: better way of distributing sagemath for debian/ubuntu

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Polte
The squashfs files are now uploaded to here: http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/frank/sagemath/squashfs/ Frank Polte -- 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 optio

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: 2010/2/4 Dr. David Kirkby : ross k wrote: I know this subject is a contentious one so Ill just make a quick comment... It would however mean that people that wanted a stable release to install on a server they can't change every couple of weeks, would chose an X.Y.1, or a

[sage-devel] Re: cholmod.so: undefined symbol: _g95_filename (or gfortran_st_write_done) in cvxopt

2010-02-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 14:15, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > While trying to upgrade the cvxopt package for Sage to version 1.1.2 > of cvxopt,... Hi, I'm the one who created this spkg and i've already tweaked the setup.py with various levels of success. The older spkg (from before 1.0) already had two d

[sage-devel] Re: cholmod.so: undefined symbol: _g95_filename (or gfortran_st_write_done) in cvxopt

2010-02-04 Thread Joachim Dahl
everywhere you link against blas or lapack in the setup.py script, I would also link against gfortran. Joachim On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > While trying to upgrade the cvxopt package for Sage to version 1.1.2 > of cvxopt, one encounters a build problem; more precisely

[sage-devel] cholmod.so: undefined symbol: _g95_filename (or gfortran_st_write_done) in cvxopt

2010-02-04 Thread Dima Pasechnik
While trying to upgrade the cvxopt package for Sage to version 1.1.2 of cvxopt, one encounters a build problem; more precisely, it's a runtime error that comes from the dynamic library cholmod.so missing a symbol. I gather it had to be linked with against an appropriate Fortran library (libgfortra

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread William Stein
2010/2/4 Dr. David Kirkby : > ross k wrote: >> >> I know this subject is a contentious one so Ill just make a quick comment... >> >>> It would however mean that people that wanted a stable release to install on >>> a server they can't change every couple of weeks, would chose an X.Y.1, or >>> an X.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.2.rc0 released

2010-02-04 Thread mhampton
All tests pass on my intel mac running 10.4.11. -Marshall -- 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.com/group/sage-dev

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
ross k wrote: I know this subject is a contentious one so Ill just make a quick comment... It would however mean that people that wanted a stable release to install on a server they can't change every couple of weeks, would chose an X.Y.1, or an X.Y.2, safe in the knowledge that it should be qu

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Alex Ghitza wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:10:25 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: It seems to me that Sage version numbers follow the rule, that when last digit in X.Y.Z get to 2, then Y is incremented. That is some logic I guess, but it is not a sensible one. (I think this is a case of Mathe

[sage-devel] Re: Help needed reviewing/testing new mpmath version in Sage

2010-02-04 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I think for testing it would be best if there is an mpmath-0.14.spkg ... That ensures that we all test exactly the same configuration and it avoids errors that might happen after testing when packing it together in an spkg. I created one here: (it's just an export from the svn trunk and two ne

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-release] Sage 4.3.2.rc0 released

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:02:52 +1100, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Please test and report all problems. Here are three reports: - ONE -- OS version: Arch Linux Machine name: artin Architecture: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz 32/64 bit: 32 bit

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:10:25 +, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > It seems to me that Sage version numbers follow the rule, that when last > digit > in X.Y.Z get to 2, then Y is incremented. That is some logic I guess, but it > is > not a sensible one. (I think this is a case of Mathematicians

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread ross k
I know this subject is a contentious one so Ill just make a quick comment... > It would however mean that people that wanted a stable release to install on > a server they can't change every couple of weeks, would chose an X.Y.1, or > an X.Y.2, safe in the knowledge that it should be quite stable,

Re: [sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Personally I feel having something like Sage 4.0.0 - major new release. Sometime really great has happened. Be prepared for some bugs (remember gcc 4.0.4 ?) Sorry, that was supposed to be: Sage 4.0.0 - major new release. Something really great has happened. Be prepar

[sage-devel] Do Sage version numbers follow any logic ?

2010-02-04 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
It seems to me that Sage version numbers follow the rule, that when last digit in X.Y.Z get to 2, then Y is incremented. That is some logic I guess, but it is not a sensible one. (I think this is a case of Mathematicians at work) Would it not be more appropriate to have some logic to the versi

[sage-devel] Re: newbie: how to "update" a patch

2010-02-04 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Mercurial queues are great, as I am just beginning to see. Thanks for sharing. Dmitrii On Feb 4, 3:03 am, bump wrote: > > make a new patch replacing the present one? > > --- I have trouble understanding how to do this in mercurial. > >     Do I backout my previous patch and make a new one? (I tr