Re: [sage-devel] Re: wiki.sagemath.org

2011-08-18 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:39 PM, leif wrote: > On 18 Aug., 21:56, William Stein wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, leif wrote: >> > On 18 Aug., 19:44, William Stein wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> Do to spam getting out of control, write access is mostly disabled to >> >> wiki.sagemath.org r

[sage-devel] Re: wiki.sagemath.org

2011-08-18 Thread leif
On 18 Aug., 21:56, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, leif wrote: > > On 18 Aug., 19:44, William Stein wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> Do to spam getting out of control, write access is mostly disabled to > >> wiki.sagemath.org right now.  Mike Hansen is working on making it so > >>

[sage-devel] Purpose of readlink and realpath in $SAGE_ROOT/sage

2011-08-18 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Hello sage-devel, Can somebody explain the rationale for the following lines in $SAGE_ROOT/sage: if [ "$SAGE_ROOT" = "." ]; then SAGE_ROOT=`readlink -n "$0" 2> /dev/null` || \ SAGE_ROOT=`realpath"$0" 2> /dev/null` || \ SAGE_ROOT="$0" I think the following would work equally w

Re: [sage-devel] Re: wiki.sagemath.org

2011-08-18 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, leif wrote: > On 18 Aug., 19:44, William Stein wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do to spam getting out of control, write access is mostly disabled to >> wiki.sagemath.org right now.  Mike Hansen is working on making it so >> accounts on trac.sagemath.org work on wiki.sagemath

[sage-devel] Re: Qimporting a new patch version via trac does not work - why?

2011-08-18 Thread Simon King
Hi Leif, On 18 Aug., 20:04, leif wrote: > > > wget will by default not clobber the file with a newer version, and > > > instead > > save it as m4rie_for_sage.patch.1 > > So maybe you do have the correct version, but not under the original > name as you expected. No. There was no file whose name

[sage-devel] Re: wiki.sagemath.org

2011-08-18 Thread leif
On 18 Aug., 19:44, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Do to spam getting out of control, write access is mostly disabled to > wiki.sagemath.org right now.  Mike Hansen is working on making it so > accounts on trac.sagemath.org work on wiki.sagemath.org.   Then to use > the wiki you will need to get a

[sage-devel] Re: Qimporting a new patch version via trac does not work - why?

2011-08-18 Thread leif
On 17 Aug., 07:18, Simon King wrote: > Hi Leif, > > On 17 Aug., 02:14, leif wrote: > > > Well, you'd see that message if you were using some HTTP proxy as > > well. > > > So looks like Mercurial is caching it. Perhaps also try the '-f' > > option, > > Thank you, I didn't know about a -f option.

[sage-devel] wiki.sagemath.org

2011-08-18 Thread William Stein
Hi, Do to spam getting out of control, write access is mostly disabled to wiki.sagemath.org right now. Mike Hansen is working on making it so accounts on trac.sagemath.org work on wiki.sagemath.org. Then to use the wiki you will need to get a trac account. -- William -- William Stein Profes

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-marketing] Happy First Birthday to...

2011-08-18 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for the reminder, as I had completely forgotten that it existed. I think I once tried to comment on something but was not allowed as I didn't have any points, and never went back. I should try again. Would it be possible to advertise it at the bottom of all postings to sage-support? John

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-marketing] Happy First Birthday to...

2011-08-18 Thread Harald Schilly
Wow, already 1 year, time flies by! On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 17:09, kcrisman wrote: > Maybe Harald has some fun b-day stats for our friend.  Have fun! Unfortunately no, because there is no tracking code. Whoever maintains it, I can send you the snippets. H -- To post to this group, send an ema

[sage-devel] Happy First Birthday to...

2011-08-18 Thread kcrisman
...the newest member of the Sage stable of resources, ask.sagemath.org! Here is the first (sample) question, asked one year ago. http://ask.sagemath.org/question/1/sample-question-how-do-i-compute-symbolic Question 706 was asked within the last 12 hours. Maybe Harald has some fun b-day stats fo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-18 Thread John Cremona
> > Good point.  It turns out to be much harder if we don't just assume numbers. >  I guess one way to do it would be to construct a parse tree using the > python parsing, except, of course, that semicolons make [1 2 3; 4 5 6] not > valid syntax, though I suppose we could replace semicolons and new

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-18 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/18/11 12:29 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Jason Grout wrote: On 8/17/11 10:02 PM, Nils Bruin wrote: On Aug 17, 5:45 pm, Dan Drakewrote: This is now #11699:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11699 I agree with Rob; this probably should be in ma