[sage-devel] Design question, matrix kernels

2010-12-20 Thread Rob Beezer
I'm looking to clean-up and add some options to the computations of matrix kernels. Which prompts a design question. Simplified somewhat, the current state of the code seems a mix of: 1. Have a single high-level method for all matrices, which delegates to helper functions in specialized classes

[sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-20 Thread Rob Beezer
So, maybe some background I should have included somewhere along the way. I'm adding significant amounts of Sage code to my open source linear algebra textbook and am working hard to make the linear algebra code more welcoming to beginners (and thanks to those who have been helping). The confusio

[sage-devel] Re: 4.6 build - Atlas fails on Ubuntu 10.10 on amd turion X2 laptop

2010-12-20 Thread Dima Pasechnik
to install Atlas well, you should switch to "performance" CPU mode. "On demand" might produce inconsistent timings during the tuning stage. http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/atlas_install.html#SECTION00032000 On Dec 18, 6:07 am, "Alexey U. Gudchenko" wrote: > Sorry for m

Re: [sage-devel] Re: 4.6 build - Atlas fails on Ubuntu 10.10 on amd turion X2 laptop

2010-12-20 Thread Alexey U. Gudchenko
Sorry for my English, I carried out some experiments, used the system reinstalation to excuse. Configuration: Ubuntu 10.10 with 2.6.35-23 kernel 2 GB of memory AMD Athlon II X2 245 Processor clock frequency is on the "On demand" mode $ cd /home/goodok/ta/sage-4.6 $ ./make On about 0:43

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Adjoint of a matrix

2010-12-20 Thread Gonzalo Tornaria
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Rob Beezer wrote: > Is there any objection to deprecating the current .adjoint() function > (which returns a matrix of cofactors) and renaming it as the > "adjugate"?  With all the usual procedures and warnings for the > deprecation.  That would begin the process t

Re: [sage-devel] Should sage notebook be enforcing a minimum password length

2010-12-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Adam Voss wrote: > I noticed in run_notebook.py that when the notebook is run with > reset=True, there is a check against min_password_length from > sagenb.misc.misc to make sure the password is long enough.  If it is > shorter than the minimum, sage prints "That p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-20 Thread Ivan Andrus
I've been meaning to make a service for OS X which does this sort of thing. Of course it's OS X only, but it would be system wide instead of just in a browser. -Ivan On Dec 20, 2010, at 4:25 PM, RegB wrote: > Yes, in a browser, most likely Firefox. > "Unprepared document" could be anything any

[sage-devel] Re: patchbot seems to have trouble with dependencies

2010-12-20 Thread Niles Johnson
putting this off-list discussion back on the list :) On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Niles wrote: >> Hi Robert, >> >> I have a short bug report, which I didn't want to overload the sage- >> devel list with: >> >> The patches for ticket

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Ideas for improvements in Mac app

2010-12-20 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Ivan Andrus wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> On 12/20/10 10:19 AM, Ivan Andrus wrote: >>> With the semester over, I'll have some time and I thought I'd work on >>> a few improvements to the Mac app.  I have some improvements that I >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Ideas for improvements in Mac app

2010-12-20 Thread Ivan Andrus
On Dec 20, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 12/20/10 10:19 AM, Ivan Andrus wrote: >> With the semester over, I'll have some time and I thought I'd work on >> a few improvements to the Mac app. I have some improvements that I >> would like to make, but I would very much like to know what

[sage-devel] Re: Ideas for improvements in Mac app

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/20/10 10:19 AM, Ivan Andrus wrote: With the semester over, I'll have some time and I thought I'd work on a few improvements to the Mac app. I have some improvements that I would like to make, but I would very much like to know what others think would be good/important to have. No suggesti

[sage-devel] Re: dot2tex spkg

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/20/10 10:06 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: What do you think: should I just go ahead, and create a ticket to get dot2tex as an optional package? That would be great. By the way: would you be willing to review it? Yes, and now I have time too since the semester is over! Thanks, Jaso

[sage-devel] Ideas for improvements in Mac app

2010-12-20 Thread Ivan Andrus
With the semester over, I'll have some time and I thought I'd work on a few improvements to the Mac app. I have some improvements that I would like to make, but I would very much like to know what others think would be good/important to have. No suggestion is too big or too small. -Ivan --

Re: [sage-devel] dot2tex spkg

2010-12-20 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Jason! On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:18:22AM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > What is the status of the dot2tex spkg? Thanks for your prompting! Progress was stalled due to: - Lack of answers to the call for votes - Heavy teaching semester for me (it just ended!) > * I see a vote for it he

[sage-devel] Should sage notebook be enforcing a minimum password length

2010-12-20 Thread Adam Voss
I noticed in run_notebook.py that when the notebook is run with reset=True, there is a check against min_password_length from sagenb.misc.misc to make sure the password is long enough. If it is shorter than the minimum, sage prints "That password is way too short. Enter a password with at least 6

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-20 Thread RegB
Yes, in a browser, most likely Firefox. "Unprepared document" could be anything anywhere, including a displayed .pdf file (within a browser tab). The file that it is in shouldn't matter, it is just highlighted text and I think once it is highlighted it is in the (OS's) clipboard. I am not sure if i

[sage-devel] Re: Should notebook use a deport port of 8080 and not 8000?

2010-12-20 Thread Adam Voss
On Dec 2, 5:45 am, David Kirkby wrote: > Perhaps this is something we could change when Sage 5.0 is released. > People can expect more compatibility issues when using a major > upgrade. Would it be proper then to open a trac ticket with a patch against the 5.0 milestone, or just wait and see onc

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-enhancing textbooks

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Grout
On 12/19/10 7:09 AM, RegB wrote: That appears to be very similar to what (I believe) I am thinking of. The difference is that I am wish-dreaming a plug-in for Firefox, which more of us use more generally more of the time than TeXMacs. I am imagining the situation where we come across an expressio

[sage-devel] Easymacs

2010-12-20 Thread maldun
Hi! Maybe some of will find this tool also useful: http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Emacs/Easymacs/index.php I personally love the emacs, but I never liked the positioning of the shortcuts... and since the emacs is afaik the only editor which supports sage, this could also very useful for

[sage-devel] Re: Combine ATLAS and LAPACK?

2010-12-20 Thread Volker Braun
That would of course violate the rule that spkgs must install without internet connection... -- 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 htt