Re: [sage-devel] Re: Windows port status

2011-04-15 Thread Mike Hansen
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > I recall reporting some weirdness on Windows 7, originating from the > randomized addressing issue. > (that's what rebase and rebaseall Cygwin utilities are/were fighting). > At that time Cygwin still had Python 2.5. > > Is it correct that

[sage-devel] Re: Windows port status

2011-04-15 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Mike, I recall reporting some weirdness on Windows 7, originating from the randomized addressing issue. (that's what rebase and rebaseall Cygwin utilities are/were fighting). At that time Cygwin still had Python 2.5. Is it correct that since then it has fixed itself, as Cygwin folks found a way t

Re: [sage-devel] Windows port status

2011-04-15 Thread Mike Hansen
Hello, Sorry about the delay in response. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Alexandre Blondin Massé wrote: > 1. What remains to be done? All of the current known build issues are listed at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/wiki/CygwinPort under the "Build Tickets" section. They all currently

[sage-devel] Re: Windows port status

2011-04-15 Thread Alexandre Blondin Massé
Hi ! Thank you for the detailed answer. It will help to find someone who could work on the Windows port and I'm glad it seems reasonable to ask a good undergraduated student in computer science to do the job, at least partially. Alexandre -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@go

[sage-devel] Re: Ono-Bruinier partition formula

2011-04-15 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 15, 7:16 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Friday, April 15, 2011, kcrisman wrote: > > Just curious if anyone was working on implementing > >http://aimath.org/news/partition/brunier-onofor number_of_partitions, > > or if this is something useful to do (seems to involve both heavy > > modular

[sage-devel] trac account managers wanted

2011-04-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, As you know, the Google group sage-trac-account [1] was recently created in order to better manage the creation of new accounts and manage existing ones (and slow down spams). If users are to get their trac accounts in a timely manner, we need a dedicated group of volunteer account manag

[sage-devel] Re: new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Jason Bandlow
On 04/15/2011 04:21 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > What I would find unacceptable is if some unknown person wants a trac > account for an anonymous account, having never posted to sage-devel or > sage-support. Agreed. But just to be precise about the definition of 'unknown', I think it should be ok if

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi David, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > What checks do you suggest the trac account managers do? That is quite a > critical point, as otherwise it would be very easy to spam if no checks were > made. It would be even easier to spam using some automated registration

Re: [sage-devel] Ono-Bruinier partition formula

2011-04-15 Thread William Stein
On Friday, April 15, 2011, kcrisman wrote: > Just curious if anyone was working on implementing > http://aimath.org/news/partition/brunier-ono for number_of_partitions, > or if this is something useful to do (seems to involve both heavy > modular form work and numeric approximation to ensure algeb

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:48 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > On Friday, April 15, 2011 9:43:21 PM UTC+1, Justin C. Walker wrote: > You can't rely on mail with this in the header: >From: j...@wolfram.com > You have to check the detailed headers to be (somewhat) sure that the 'From' > address is valid.

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Volker Braun
On Friday, April 15, 2011 9:43:21 PM UTC+1, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > You can't rely on mail with this in the header: >From: j...@wolfram.com > You have to check the detailed headers to be (somewhat) sure that the > 'From' address is valid. Most spammers either cobble together 'From' (as >

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:21 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > On 15 April 2011 17:51, Volker Braun wrote: >> I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email >> accounts. For example: >> * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... >> * a sourceforge-address associated to an active

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread David Kirkby
On 15 April 2011 17:51, Volker Braun wrote: > I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email > accounts. For example: >  * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... >  * a sourceforge-address associated to an active project >  * an address that has been used to post to goo

[sage-devel] Doctest failures on Ubuntu 10.10 system.

2011-04-15 Thread David Kirkby
I got these 3 repeatable failures on a Ubuntu 10.10 Linux system I set up a couple of days back. For all practical purposes this is a fresh install of the latest Ubuntu. I just had to install m4, gfortran and g++. The machine only has 1 GB RAM, but I've built and doctested Sage on a Solaris syst

[sage-devel] Re: Automatically annotate when compiling Cython file

2011-04-15 Thread Rob Beezer
%cython at the top of a notebook cell produces links to the C code and to the yellow-highlighted expandable/collapsible HTML file as side- effects. It is a simple way to see how Cython works on code, or a great thing to use in a demo. On Apr 15, 9:47 am, kcrisman wrote: > For that matter, that w

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Volker Braun
I would think that it is sufficient to only allow non-anonymous email accounts. For example: * an institutional address: .edu, .ac.uk, ... * a sourceforge-address associated to an active project * an address that has been used to post to google groups before (use search) People that want to

[sage-devel] Re: Automatically annotate when compiling Cython file

2011-04-15 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 15, 6:07 am, Nathann Cohen wrote: > Hello everybody ! > > Robert showed me a few days ago that it was possible to obtain a clear > version of the C code generated by Cython when compiling a .pyx file, > while I was trying to read the obfuscated one ^^; > > Now I wondered whether it would

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread David Roe
> > > It would seem wise to me that the email is initially at least the same one > as they have used to post to sage-devel or sage-support. If they have never > posted there, I don't feel they need a trac account. > I disagree. I've had examples of colleagues who use sage (but never posted) and h

[sage-devel] Immutable graphs

2011-04-15 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody ! There has been some talk of immutable graphs on this mailing list, and even though I wrote the first line of this patch many times -- to stop it all as soon as I begin to think about the vertex-label/edge-label/multiedges/loops hell -- I was wondering what people would be interes

[sage-devel] Ono-Bruinier partition formula

2011-04-15 Thread kcrisman
Just curious if anyone was working on implementing http://aimath.org/news/partition/brunier-ono for number_of_partitions, or if this is something useful to do (seems to involve both heavy modular form work and numeric approximation to ensure algebraic numbers are sufficiently approximated. I'm not

Re: [sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/15/11 11:39 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: Hi folks, Following a recent discussion on sage-devel [1], I've created a new Google Group called "sage-trac-account" at Hi Henrietta, Welcome to the Sage community. Before your trac account could be setup, the account managers need the following inf

[sage-devel] new group sage-trac-account for managing trac accounts

2011-04-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Following a recent discussion on sage-devel [1], I've created a new Google Group called "sage-trac-account" at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-trac-account The purpose of this group is to manage the accout system on the Sage trac at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ The idea i

[sage-devel] Automatically annotate when compiling Cython file

2011-04-15 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody ! Robert showed me a few days ago that it was possible to obtain a clear version of the C code generated by Cython when compiling a .pyx file, while I was trying to read the obfuscated one ^^; Now I wondered whether it would be possible to ask Sage to do it for some files of my ch

[sage-devel] Re: ptyrun: Run anything in a pseudo-tty

2011-04-15 Thread koffie
On Apr 14, 10:08 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Hello sage-devel, > > I wrote a program called "ptyrun", which runs an arbitrary program in a > pseudo-tty.  I personally found it useful, so maybe somebody else will > find it useful also.   > I personally found this useful in the following > setting

Re: [sage-devel] Windows port status

2011-04-15 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/14/11 05:29 PM, Alexandre Blondin Massé wrote: Hi, all! I know this is a recurrent subject, but I was wondering what was the status about the Windows port. As many other users/developers of Sage, I promote it the most I can but one obstacle that keeps showing up is that it does not work na