Re: [sage-devel] Re: with patch; needs review

2010-04-02 Thread David Joyner
I can try to test these at least. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Hello everybody ! > > If anybody has a few seconds, these patchs contain something like 5 > lines each and require no specific knowledge : > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8639 > http://trac.sag

[sage-devel] Re: with patch; needs review

2010-04-02 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody ! If anybody has a few seconds, these patchs contain something like 5 lines each and require no specific knowledge : http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8639 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7805 http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7789 This one is a bit long

Re: [sage-devel] Re: build failure of 4.3.5 on OS X 10.6.3

2010-04-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
mhampton wrote: I'll try downloading it a second time, although I don't think its corrupted because I copied that tar file to 3 other computers and all their installs went fine. I don't think I've ever used Fink or Macports on the computer causing problems. I'm not sure how to "move /usr/local

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-support] Is there an efficient method of producing indexed variables?

2010-04-02 Thread Jason Grout
On 04/02/2010 12:47 PM, Franco Saliola wrote: I forgot to more the conversation below from sage-support to sage-devel. -- Forwarded message -- From: Franco Saliola Date: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [sage-support] Is there an efficient method of producing indexed vari

Re: [sage-devel] Re: What is needed for implementing html(...)?

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi Tim! > > On 2 Apr., 19:24, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: >> I believe html(C) is used to display an HTML string (say, "Hello >> World!"). It is not meant to return an HTML representation of an >> arbitrary object. Correct. > > OK. > > But still:

[sage-devel] Fwd: [sage-support] Is there an efficient method of producing indexed variables?

2010-04-02 Thread Franco Saliola
I forgot to more the conversation below from sage-support to sage-devel. -- Forwarded message -- From: Franco Saliola Date: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [sage-support] Is there an efficient method of producing indexed variables? To: sage-supp...@googlegroups.com On T

[sage-devel] Re: What is needed for implementing html(...)?

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi Tim! On 2 Apr., 19:24, Tim Joseph Dumol wrote: > I believe html(C) is used to display an HTML string (say, "Hello > World!"). It is not meant to return an HTML representation of an > arbitrary object. OK. But still: Shouldn't it display a *nice* HTML string (provided by a special method) rat

Re: [sage-devel] What is needed for implementing html(...)?

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
I believe html(C) is used to display an HTML string (say, "Hello World!"). It is not meant to return an HTML representation of an arbitrary object. I don't know what does. Someone else may chime in on that. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi! > > If C is any object in sage, t

[sage-devel] What is needed for implementing html(...)?

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi! If C is any object in sage, then latex(C) first tests whether C has a _latex_ method. If this is the case, it is used. Otherwise, C.__str__() is used. Until few minutes ago, I thought that html(C) would work similarly. So, I had implemented a _html_ method. However, html(C) immediately uses C

[sage-devel] Re: build failure of 4.3.5 on OS X 10.6.3

2010-04-02 Thread mhampton
I'll try downloading it a second time, although I don't think its corrupted because I copied that tar file to 3 other computers and all their installs went fine. I don't think I've ever used Fink or Macports on the computer causing problems. I'm not sure how to "move /usr/local out of the way" in

[sage-devel] Re: build failure of 4.3.5 on OS X 10.6.3

2010-04-02 Thread John H Palmieri
On Apr 2, 9:19 am, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM, mhampton wrote: > > > Can anyone help with this?  I upgraded to 10.6.3, started over, and > > things crash in the same place as before - towards the end of building > > freetype.  Any ideas?? > > I can report that to help w

Re: [sage-devel] Re: build failure of 4.3.5 on OS X 10.6.3

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:16 AM, mhampton wrote: > > Can anyone help with this?  I upgraded to 10.6.3, started over, and > things crash in the same place as before - towards the end of building > freetype.  Any ideas?? I can report that to help with this I upgraded to 10.6.3 (on bsd.math), then di

[sage-devel] Re: build failure of 4.3.5 on OS X 10.6.3

2010-04-02 Thread mhampton
Can anyone help with this? I upgraded to 10.6.3, started over, and things crash in the same place as before - towards the end of building freetype. Any ideas?? -Marshall On Mar 31, 6:08 am, mhampton wrote: > I had no problem on linux or a mac running 10.5.  But on my 10.6.2 I > get this: > >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread John Cremona
On 2 April 2010 16:31, Simon King wrote: > Hi John! > > On 2 Apr., 17:10, John Cremona wrote: >> On your local machine running linux (which is the only thing I know >> about) I type >> >> ssh selmer -L 8123:localhost:8000 >> >> and I get the usual prompt on selmer *and* now in my browser I can go

[sage-devel] Re: How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi John! On 2 Apr., 17:10, John Cremona wrote: > On your local machine running linux (which is the only thing I know > about) I type > > ssh selmer -L 8123:localhost:8000 > > and I get the usual prompt on selmer *and* now in my browser I can go > tohttps://localhost:8123  and get selmer's Sage lo

[sage-devel] Re: How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi! I think I found something: There seems to be a difference between a class and a type. My approach was to let the __getattr__ method print the name of the requested attribute. So: class FOO: def __getattr__(self, a): print a if a=='__members__': return ['foo','

Re: [sage-devel] Re: How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread John Cremona
On 2 April 2010 15:34, Simon King wrote: > Hi William, > > On 2 Apr., 16:23, William Stein wrote: >> Does "tab completion work fine, manually" in the notebook? > > My university's computer services wouldn't allow to launch a notebook > on my computer that can be accessed remotely. So, I think I c

[sage-devel] Re: How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi again! On 2 Apr., 16:34, Simon King wrote: > Or, before giving up, I'll try to produce a toy example on sagenb - > perhaps it can be replicated in that way. No, I can't replicate it. I tried: class FOO: def __getattr__(self, a): if a=='__members__': return ['foo','ba

[sage-devel] Re: How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi William, On 2 Apr., 16:23, William Stein wrote: > Does "tab completion work fine, manually" in the notebook? My university's computer services wouldn't allow to launch a notebook on my computer that can be accessed remotely. So, I think I can only test it after Easter. Or, before giving up,

Re: [sage-devel] How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
Hi, I'm cc'ing this to sage-combinat, since I recall that somewhere there recently broke tab completion, so might be responsible for this (?). On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi! > > A while ago, I asked how to doc test tab completion, in the case of a > class with a custom _

[sage-devel] How to doc-test tab completion, revisited

2010-04-02 Thread Simon King
Hi! A while ago, I asked how to doc test tab completion, in the case of a class with a custom __getattr__ method. See http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/1bf6652891c4e45/232b75c9fe2d8c6c?lnk=gst&q=tab+completion+doc+test#232b75c9fe2d8c6c Eventually, I used to successful

[sage-devel] virtual build farm

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
Hi, I'm going to setup and/or fixup the Sage build farm system. If anybody is seriously interested in helping me with this, and has substantial experience with Linux administration, please send me an email so we can organize our attack. I could do this all myself, but it's a lot of tedious wor

[sage-devel] with patch; needs review

2010-04-02 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Devel, There are 150 tickets that currently need to be reviewed: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/10 -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegr

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: Sage releases

2010-04-02 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Robert, before saying +1 to all the above, you should ask yourself if all of the above is practical. IMHO, it is not. I think this is the main point of disagreement, IMHO it is practical and worthwhile (though a lot

[sage-devel] Fwd: Consider a demo at PLMMS 2010

2010-04-02 Thread Dima Pasechnik
this was posted to sage-support, I just thought that it might be useful here, too -- Forwarded message -- From: JamesHDavenport Date: Apr 1, 6:20 pm Subject: Consider a demo at PLMMS 2010 To: sage-support I am a co-organizer of Programming Languages for Mechanized Mathematics S