[sage-devel] Re: GR package

2010-02-12 Thread Hazem
>From what I've heard, The available open-source packages that could form a basis for tensor calculus and Differential geometry in Sage are: Axiom (FriCAS, OpenAxiom) Reduce (used alot by physicists, and has some specialized toolboxes that could serve the purpose) Cadabra This would be a good a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote on bugs to be fixed for sage-4.4 "stabilization release".

2010-02-12 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 02/12/2010 06:32 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Lately it seems like Sage has gotten more bugs rather than less.    I >> think it's time for a stabilization release -- say Sage-4.4 -- that >> fixes the absolutely most annoying of t

[sage-devel] Re: Vote on bugs to be fixed for sage-4.4 "stabilization release".

2010-02-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 02/12/2010 06:32 PM, William Stein wrote: Hi, Lately it seems like Sage has gotten more bugs rather than less.I think it's time for a stabilization release -- say Sage-4.4 -- that fixes the absolutely most annoying of these bugs. Just curious---do you see this as the next release, bui

Re: [sage-devel] Vote on bugs to be fixed for sage-4.4 "stabilization release".

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: Hi, Lately it seems like Sage has gotten more bugs rather than less.I think it's time for a stabilization release -- say Sage-4.4 -- that fixes the absolutely most annoying of these bugs. I think your idea is excellent. What are *your* top 4 bugs that are in sage-4.3

[sage-devel] Vote on bugs to be fixed for sage-4.4 "stabilization release".

2010-02-12 Thread William Stein
Hi, Lately it seems like Sage has gotten more bugs rather than less.I think it's time for a stabilization release -- say Sage-4.4 -- that fixes the absolutely most annoying of these bugs. What are *your* top 4 bugs that are in sage-4.3.2 that you really wish were fixed?? If you care, respon

Re: [sage-devel] calling sage from external c / cython code

2010-02-12 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Burcin Erocal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in Kaiserslautern, at a workshop on connecting mathematical > software for polyhedral geometry with software packages for Gröbner > basis (polymake, gfan, singular). > > I tried to code a small example demonstrating how to call Sa

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.3.alpha0 released

2010-02-12 Thread mhampton
All tests passed on an intel mac running 10.6.2. -Marshall On Feb 12, 7:59 am, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi kcrisman, > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:58 AM, kcrisman wrote: > > > > > Will it also always have upgrade and > > sage.math binary paths? > > I think so. Release managers would deposit alpha

Re: [sage-devel] Parent, ParentWithGens etc.

2010-02-12 Thread David Roe
Option 2: the goal is to eventually eliminate ParentWithGens and ParentWithBase, and rewrite all classes in Sage that use their functionality to instead use the functions defined by sage.structure.parent.Parent and sage.structure.category_object.CategoryObject. This transition will take quite a bi

[sage-devel] Parent, ParentWithGens etc.

2010-02-12 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
Hello, I have started writing a class for Fano toric varieties, and as I understand it should inherit from AmbientSpace. Going further, AmbientSpace derives from ParentWithGens and in the beginning of the corresponding file we see .. note:: This class is being deprecated, see ``sage.struct

[sage-devel] Re: unexpected behaviour of reset() and assume()

2010-02-12 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 12, 11:38 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi, I got this from the "report a problem" report link. > > I confirmed this with 4.3.2, I think this would at also make a nice > doctest if it is already known... > > reset(); forget(); n=var('n'); assume(n>0); bool(n>0) > => True > > After that, typ

[sage-devel] Re: weird output for sha().an() in rank 2

2010-02-12 Thread Harald Schilly
and a bit more on that: I compute some E.sha().an() in a family, and get a wrong output when the rank of the curve is 2. For instance, t=43, (1, 2, '11825l2', 1.00), no problem here (1, 2, '11825l1', 5.00)), 5.000 is supposed to be the order of the Tate-Sha of the curve 11

[sage-devel] unexpected behaviour of reset() and assume()

2010-02-12 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I got this from the "report a problem" report link. I confirmed this with 4.3.2, I think this would at also make a nice doctest if it is already known... reset(); forget(); n=var('n'); assume(n>0); bool(n>0) => True After that, type: reset(); n=var('n'); assume(n>0); bool(n>0) => False E

[sage-devel] weird output for sha().an() in rank 2

2010-02-12 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I got this problem reported via the "report a problem" link. I don't know how valid it is, but at least there is some confusion about it. Sage Version 4.3.2, Description: I compute E.sha().an() in a series of parametrized computations. I get strange results when the curve has rank 2: t=-25,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.3.alpha0 released

2010-02-12 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi kcrisman, On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:58 AM, kcrisman wrote: > Will it also always have upgrade and > sage.math binary paths? I think so. Release managers would deposit alpha and rc releases there, including sage.math binaries and upgrade paths. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.3.3.alpha0 released

2010-02-12 Thread kcrisman
> William recently created a directory called "release/" for depositing > alpha and rc releases. From now on, you can get the latest alpha/rc > releases from any of these URLs: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/release/http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/release/ > This is a great idea.

[sage-devel] Sage 4.3.3.alpha0 released

2010-02-12 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Pat volunteered to put together Sage 4.3.3.alpha0. Unfortunately, Pat is feeling unwell at the moment, so I'm announcing this alpha release. I'll be also taking over managing the release of Sage 4.3.3.alpha1. William recently created a directory called "release/" for depositing alpha and

Re: [sage-devel] Re: gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Bill Hart wrote: You can't get around requiring LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set on Solaris Sparc. similarly for LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64. The libgcc is required by some binaries gcc generates, and your linker has to be able to find it. After all, you could have put it anywhere and the linker doesn't have any

[sage-devel] Re: gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread Bill Hart
I just opened the file include/NTL/config.h in the Sage 4.3.2 tarball and it contains the lines: #if 1 #define NTL_STD_CXX This is perfectly valid C++. So it looks like you have some file corruption. The C++ code you posted is not valid. C++ programmers frequently use #if 1 to specifically incl

Re: [sage-devel] gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
François Bissey wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:02 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: François Bissey wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:29:22 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I've tried to build sage-4.3.2 on Solaris 10 using gcc 4.4.3 (the latest version). It is complaining about some code in NTL, specicially the u

[sage-devel] Re: gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread Bill Hart
You can't get around requiring LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set on Solaris Sparc. similarly for LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64. The libgcc is required by some binaries gcc generates, and your linker has to be able to find it. After all, you could have put it anywhere and the linker doesn't have any guidelines on wher

Re: [sage-devel] t2.math binary for Sage 4.3.0.1

2010-02-12 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > There is another one, which can be found on all the mirrors I created the said binary at Alex's request, as can be found in a recent thread on sage-release [1]. > If you want, and with Williams permission, I'll create you

Re: [sage-devel] t2.math binary for Sage 4.3.0.1

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, I have built Sage 4.3.0.1 on t2.math. The binary tarball can be found at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mvngu/t2.math-bin/sage-4.3.0.1.tar.gz There is another one, which can be found on all the mirrors - e.g. http://modular.math.jmu.edu/solaris/index.html

Re: [sage-devel] gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread François Bissey
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:02 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > François Bissey wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:29:22 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> I've tried to build sage-4.3.2 on Solaris 10 using gcc 4.4.3 (the latest > >> version). It is complaining about some code in NTL, specicially the use > >> of '

Re: [sage-devel] No need for OpenSSL

2010-02-12 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:50 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I agree in this case, something went wrong, but on other occasions, I've seen this problem without lots of modules failing. Here is one section of a previous build failure on SPARC: Failed to find the necessary bits to build these mod

Re: [sage-devel] gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
François Bissey wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:29:22 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: I've tried to build sage-4.3.2 on Solaris 10 using gcc 4.4.3 (the latest version). It is complaining about some code in NTL, specicially the use of 'if' and 'define' include/NTL/config.h. I'm not a C++ programmer. It i

Re: [sage-devel] No need for OpenSSL

2010-02-12 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert Bradshaw wrote: To see what would happen, I went and grabbed the OpenSolaris image at http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/images/opensolaris/ , installed gcc, moved the openssl directory out of /usr/include, and b

[sage-devel] Re: why is glpk-4.38.p4 in optional and glpk-4.9 in experimental?

2010-02-12 Thread Nathann Cohen
Done ! But I have absolutely no idea how to deal with such a ticket... I only know how to create patches ;-) Nathann On 12 February 2010 09:37, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Nathann, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Nathann Cohen > wrote: > > > >> Besides, everything that is >> inside is also

[sage-devel] Re: why is glpk-4.38.p4 in optional and glpk-4.9 in experimental?

2010-02-12 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Nathann, On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Besides, everything that is > inside is also in glpk 4.38, so we should be fine removing it :-) Could you please open a ticket for this? -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goo

[sage-devel] Re: why is glpk-4.38.p4 in optional and glpk-4.9 in experimental?

2010-02-12 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello !!! Well, I definitely remember having sent the same kind of post to this mailing list or on IRC, where it was acknowledged that no one really knew who first created this GLPK package. Besides, everything that is inside is also in glpk 4.38, so we should be fine removing it :-) Nathann --

Re: [sage-devel] gcc 4.4.3 not liking NTL's use of 'if' and 'define' on two lines

2010-02-12 Thread François Bissey
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:29:22 Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > I've tried to build sage-4.3.2 on Solaris 10 using gcc 4.4.3 (the latest > version). It is complaining about some code in NTL, specicially the use of > 'if' and 'define' include/NTL/config.h. > > I'm not a C++ programmer. It is normal to put