[sage-devel] Re: [Ecls-list] Problems building Maxima with ECL on Cygwin.

2011-04-27 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
I know about these bug reports -- similar ones appeared on a different context --. Unfortunately I am at a peak of work load and will solve them slower than usual. Thanks for reminding. Juanjo On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 04/28/11 06:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote

[sage-devel] Re: [Ecls-list] Problems building Maxima with ECL on Cygwin.

2011-04-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On 04/28/11 06:30 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Hi, it has been reported that there are issues in trying to build Maxima on Cygwin using ECL. Does this look like an ECL issue. See error message at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11260 Note this is Windows 7, not XP or Vista. It works

Re: [sage-devel] Problems building Maxima with ECL on Cygwin.

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Hansen
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Hi, > it has been reported that there are issues in trying to build Maxima on > Cygwin using ECL. Does this look like an ECL issue. See error message at > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11260 Another data point: it builds fi

[sage-devel] Problems building Maxima with ECL on Cygwin.

2011-04-27 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Hi, it has been reported that there are issues in trying to build Maxima on Cygwin using ECL. Does this look like an ECL issue. See error message at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11260 -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting s

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Here is the ticket: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11265 -- 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/grou

Re: [sage-devel] Can I use patchbot?

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 at 06:32PM -0700, Kwankyu Lee wrote: >> I hear about patchbot here and there. I understand it as an automatic >> patch testing system. Is that available to an occasional developer >> like me? Or is that for the release manager

[sage-devel] Re: XCode 4

2011-04-27 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Hi, I tried XCode 4 and came to conclusion that it is buggy as hell - I can't build working Sage (due to startup-time segfaults, as described here), I can't even build a working copy of MPIR, etc etc... Even worse is behaviour with its clang compilers (they can't even compile several parts of Sag

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread kcrisman
On Apr 27, 10:26 pm, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > I just looked into the detex function. To me, it seems a little buggy. > > 1. "\ldots", "\cdots" are both converted to "...". Hence there is no reason > not to convert "\dots" to "..." > > 2. The programming logic introduces a bug. For example "souldots"

Re: [sage-devel] Can I use patchbot?

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Thanks, Dan! Kwankyu -- 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-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
I just looked into the detex function. To me, it seems a little buggy. 1. "\ldots", "\cdots" are both converted to "...". Hence there is no reason not to convert "\dots" to "..." 2. The programming logic introduces a bug. For example "souldots" is converted to "sou...". That is, if there is a w

Re: [sage-devel] Can I use patchbot?

2011-04-27 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 at 06:32PM -0700, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > I hear about patchbot here and there. I understand it as an automatic > patch testing system. Is that available to an occasional developer > like me? Or is that for the release manager and his/her lieutenants? > Please give me a short guide

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
So \ldots is converted to "...", but \dots is not. Ok. Thanks, John! Kwankyu -- 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.goog

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:54:29 PM UTC-7, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:06:21 PM UTC-7, Kwankyu Lee wrote: >> >> Other solution would be to convert \ldots in latex markup to ... in >> commandline. Currently, \dots inside ` ` is just converted to "dots". This

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 6:06:21 PM UTC-7, Kwankyu Lee wrote: > > Other solution would be to convert \ldots in latex markup to ... in > commandline. Currently, \dots inside ` ` is just converted to "dots". This > looks ugly in commandline. > In my experience, \ldots is converted to ...

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Indented code in terminal

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Hi Johin, You may be interested in the ticket: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10289 Would you kindly review it? It's long been in "needs review" state. Kwankyu -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Can I use patchbot?

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Hi, I hear about patchbot here and there. I understand it as an automatic patch testing system. Is that available to an occasional developer like me? Or is that for the release manager and his/her lieutenants? Please give me a short guide on it or a reference to it. Thank you. Kwankyu -- To

[sage-devel] Re: dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Other solution would be to convert \ldots in latex markup to ... in commandline. Currently, \dots inside ` ` is just converted to "dots". This looks ugly in commandline. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sag

[sage-devel] Re: unexpected behaviors in Expression

2011-04-27 Thread tvn
sage: (-x +y == 0) in [x -y == 0] True ^^^ should be sage: (-x +y < 0) in [x -y < 0] True -- 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:

[sage-devel] unexpected behaviors in Expression

2011-04-27 Thread tvn
greetings, I have been using Sage extensively in the past several months and really like it. Hopefully I can make some contributions to it directly someday. Below lists two things about Expression in Sage that are not very intuitive and should get addressed because it is very error-prone,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: XCode 4

2011-04-27 Thread Francois Bissey
> On 27 April 2011 21:28, William Stein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Aly Deines showed me what happened when she installed Xcode 4 then > > built Sage. She build Sage-4.7.rc0 itself, and it compiled fine. > > However, when she ran it, it crashed on startup. The traceback > > > implicates Pynac: > C

Re: [sage-devel] Re: XCode 4

2011-04-27 Thread David Kirkby
On 27 April 2011 21:28, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Aly Deines showed me what happened when she installed Xcode 4 then > built Sage.  She build Sage-4.7.rc0 itself, and it compiled fine. > However, when she ran it, it crashed on startup.   The traceback > implicates Pynac: Could this be relate

Re: [sage-devel] Re: XCode 4

2011-04-27 Thread William Stein
Hi, Aly Deines showed me what happened when she installed Xcode 4 then built Sage. She build Sage-4.7.rc0 itself, and it compiled fine. However, when she ran it, it crashed on startup. The traceback implicates Pynac: (gdb) #0 0x000107a20c64 in PyInt_FromLong (ival=-5) at Objects/intobject

[sage-devel] Re: Documentation tips...

2011-04-27 Thread Niles
On Apr 25, 8:04 am, "Nicolas M. Thiery" wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:45:06AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: > On the other hand, there is no point in adding a sentence like "We > here give an interesting example", as it does not bring any > information: It may be useful, in case the other examp

[sage-devel] Re: Can we afford a new attribute of sage.structure.element.Element?

2011-04-27 Thread Simon King
Hi Martin, On 27 Apr., 17:06, Martin Raum wrote: > I still don't have a strong oppinion on this. This is mainly because I > would like to see one additional test: Could you compare (timewise) > the creation of say 1 or 10 million (easy) objects based on a version > with and without patch? By "ob

[sage-devel] 237 tickets need review

2011-04-27 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Devel, Wow, there are currently 237 tickets that are set to "needs review" on trac right now [1]. [1]http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/30 I would like to encourage people to referee more tickets. That's it. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University

[sage-devel] Re: 237 tickets need review

2011-04-27 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:53 AM, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage-Devel, > > Wow, there are currently 237 tickets that are set to "needs review" on > trac right now [1]. > >  [1]    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/report/30 > > I would like to encourage people to referee more tickets.  That's it.

[sage-devel] Re: Can we afford a new attribute of sage.structure.element.Element?

2011-04-27 Thread Martin Raum
I still don't have a strong oppinion on this. This is mainly because I would like to see one additional test: Could you compare (timewise) the creation of say 1 or 10 million (easy) objects based on a version with and without patch? In principle, I am in favor of you suggestion, but this seems like

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Can we afford a new attribute of sage.structure.element.Element?

2011-04-27 Thread John Cremona
+1: I trust you. That might not be a well-enough informed basis for backing the proposal, but it might at least generate some other responses! John On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Simon King wrote: > Sorry to bother you again, but I think that changes on a very basic > level such as sage/struc

[sage-devel] Re: Can we afford a new attribute of sage.structure.element.Element?

2011-04-27 Thread Simon King
Sorry to bother you again, but I think that changes on a very basic level such as sage/structure/element.pxd require sage-devel's blessing. On 25 Apr., 19:57, Simon King wrote: > The background of my question is trac ticket #5. It provides a > Cython version of @cached_method, and it is reall

[sage-devel] Fwd: ECL-11.1.1 fails to compile maxima on WIndows 7 / Cygwin 1.7.9

2011-04-27 Thread Dima Pasechnik
just forwarding here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dima Pasechnik Date: Apr 27, 8:03 pm Subject: ECL-11.1.1 fails to compile maxima on WIndows 7 / Cygwin 1.7.9 To: sage-windows Basically, it's an ECL bug/feature related to playing fast and loose with DLLs. It seems to be a sho

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sphinx TODO extension

2011-04-27 Thread Pablo De Napoli
Please review ticket #10620 to upgrade sphynix Pablo On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Keshav Kini wrote: > I also prefer trac, but I know why: it's shorter! Also it's more clearly > related to trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac . Patch comments also say stuff like > "trac #1234", not "ticket #1234".

[sage-devel] dots in docstring

2011-04-27 Thread Kwankyu Lee
Hi, How about converting triple dots (...) in math(I mean inside ` `) in a docstring automatically to \dots so that it appears nice both in commandline and in notebook? Does this have a trac ticket? Kwankyu -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscrib