Re: [sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> > Again, installing libjpeg.dylib and/or libpng.dylib into $SAGE_LOCAL/ >> > lib has bad side effects on OS X, due to the use of DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH >> > in the Sage framework overall.  So, maybe make it an optional spkg, >> > but having it as

Re: [sage-devel] potential slowdown in list_plot to support complex numbers

2011-11-15 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 at 09:49PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Keshav Kini wrote: > > Why separate it out into another function _list_plot? I do like the idea of _list_plot() accepting only one format, and the user-facing list_plot() doing the work of mangling your

Re: [sage-devel] potential slowdown in list_plot to support complex numbers

2011-11-15 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 at 08:19PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > Right now, we have: > > sage: list_plot([1+I, 2+I, 4-I]) > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > TypeError: unable to simplify to float approximation > > I suppose you could rewrite list_plot so that it calls a function > _list_plo

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
> > Again, installing libjpeg.dylib and/or libpng.dylib into $SAGE_LOCAL/ > > lib has bad side effects on OS X, due to the use of DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH > > in the Sage framework overall.  So, maybe make it an optional spkg, > > but having it as a required or standard spkg would be bad. > > We already i

Re: [sage-devel] question about patch level in spkg file names

2011-11-15 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Yep. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > I'm a bit unclear on what the value of patchlevel should be in my new > PIL package.  I carry over the two patches from pil-1.1.6.p4, but it's > a new PIL version, so I'm thinking pil-1.1.7.p0.  Would that be > correct? > > -- > To post

[sage-devel] question about patch level in spkg file names

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
I'm a bit unclear on what the value of patchlevel should be in my new PIL package. I carry over the two patches from pil-1.1.6.p4, but it's a new PIL version, so I'm thinking pil-1.1.7.p0. Would that be correct? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscri

Re: [sage-devel] potential slowdown in list_plot to support complex numbers

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Keshav Kini wrote: > Why separate it out into another function _list_plot? Why not just put a try > block into the function? That seems like it would make the source harder to > read and tracebacks longer without much benefit. It's also another matter > whether or

Re: [sage-devel] potential slowdown in list_plot to support complex numbers

2011-11-15 Thread Keshav Kini
Why separate it out into another function _list_plot? Why not just put a try block into the function? That seems like it would make the source harder to read and tracebacks longer without much benefit. It's also another matter whether or not complex numbers being in the list are an "exceptional

Re: [sage-devel] Free amazon EC2 building of Sage

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 at 07:59PM -0800, William Stein wrote: >> To build, I had to install these packages: >> >>    yum install gcc emacs make screen gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran > > You need emacs to build Sage? Wow, emacs really *is* an operating > syste

[sage-devel] set_legend_options and set_aspect_ratio don't seem to do anything

2011-11-15 Thread Dan Drake
It seems that I've discovered more broken things in the plotting code! I'm trying to get my plots to look right, and I've discovered that I can't alter the legend or aspect ratio with the relevant "set_" functions: sage: q = plot(tan(x), (x,-1,1)) sage: q.set_aspect_ratio(5) ...which has no affe

Re: [sage-devel] Free amazon EC2 building of Sage

2011-11-15 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 at 07:59PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > To build, I had to install these packages: > >yum install gcc emacs make screen gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran You need emacs to build Sage? Wow, emacs really *is* an operating system...! > The build literally took *4 DAYS* to complete (!).

Re: [sage-devel] potential slowdown in list_plot to support complex numbers

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > Hello, > > At ticket #12035, I posted a patch that makes list_plot do the obvious > thing when given a list such as > >      [1+I, 2+I, 4-I] > > The only way I could see for detecting "genuine" complex number input > was to iterate over the entir

[sage-devel] Free amazon EC2 building of Sage

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
HI Sage-Devel, In case anybody is curious, I signed up for one of the free Amazon EC2 virtual machines, selected the "Amazon Linux AMI release 2011.09" operating system, and built Sage-4.7.2 from source.This virtual machine has one 2.6Ghz processor and 600MB RAM. To build, I had to install t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > Are there any spkgs elsewhere in Sage which require libjpeg?  If so, > what version of it?  I know that scipy has an imread function; anyone > know what does it do for JPEG? > > Again, installing libjpeg.dylib and/or libpng.dylib into $SAGE_LO

[sage-devel] Re: skinny plots disappear when shown together

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/15/11 9:25 PM, Dan Drake wrote: Here are two skinny plots: sage: foo = list_plot([(0, 0), (-4.85722573273506e-17, 0.251310273150262), (4.85722573273506e-17, 0.502620546300524), (-3.46944695195361e-17, 0.753930819450786), (6.93889390390723e-18, 1.00524109260105), (-2.08166817117217e

[sage-devel] skinny plots disappear when shown together

2011-11-15 Thread Dan Drake
Here are two skinny plots: sage: foo = list_plot([(0, 0), (-4.85722573273506e-17, 0.251310273150262), (4.85722573273506e-17, 0.502620546300524), (-3.46944695195361e-17, 0.753930819450786), (6.93889390390723e-18, 1.00524109260105), (-2.08166817117217e-17, 1.25655136575131), (6.93889390390723

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
On Nov 15, 7:01 pm, Bill Janssen wrote: > Are there any spkgs elsewhere in Sage which require libjpeg?  If so, > what version of it?  I know that scipy has an imread function; anyone > know what does it do for JPEG? I looked it up; it uses PIL. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-de

[sage-devel] potential slowdown in list_plot to support complex numbers

2011-11-15 Thread Dan Drake
Hello, At ticket #12035, I posted a patch that makes list_plot do the obvious thing when given a list such as [1+I, 2+I, 4-I] The only way I could see for detecting "genuine" complex number input was to iterate over the entire input, running CC() on everything and looking for nonzero imagi

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Are there any spkgs elsewhere in Sage which require libjpeg? If so, what version of it? I know that scipy has an imread function; anyone know what does it do for JPEG? Again, installing libjpeg.dylib and/or libpng.dylib into $SAGE_LOCAL/ lib has bad side effects on OS X, due to the use of DYLD_L

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/15/11 8:49 PM, William Stein wrote: Yes. A standard function in matlab is imread [1], which can read in jpg images. It appears from the documentation that the scipy imread function requires PIL (which presumably would require libjpeg): http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/genera

Re: [sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:01 PM, kcrisman wrote: > > > On Nov 15, 5:34 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> > On Nov 15, 1:02 pm, "Georg S. Weber" >> > wrote: >> >> Some people buidling >> >> Sage from source do *want* a libjpeg on their system to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: >> One trivial thing you could do would be to build from source in /tmp/, >> then just move your install to your home directory.  Sage supports >> moving complete installs. > > That's basically what I am doing.  Still breaks because it's trying

[sage-devel] Re: talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 15, 8:46 pm, Bill Janssen wrote: > > One trivial thing you could do would be to build from source in /tmp/, > > then just move your install to your home directory.  Sage supports > > moving complete installs. > > That's basically what I am doing.  Still breaks because it's trying to > do

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 15, 5:34 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > > On Nov 15, 1:02 pm, "Georg S. Weber" > > wrote: > >> Some people buidling > >> Sage from source do *want* a libjpeg on their system to be taken into > >> accont by their PIL in Sage! > > > Reall

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
On Nov 15, 12:29 pm, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > it installs quite some files e.g. under $SAGE_LOCAL/bin/ which > no Sage user needs (or even knows of, I guess), thus "polluting" the > tree without having cleanup mechansims at hand. I've just reviewed the scripts in Imaging-1.1.7/Scripts/, and I se

[sage-devel] Re: talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
> One trivial thing you could do would be to build from source in /tmp/, > then just move your install to your home directory.  Sage supports > moving complete installs. That's basically what I am doing. Still breaks because it's trying to do stuff in ~janssen/.sage/ as part of the build. I can

Re: [sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Francois Bissey
> The only real advantages of keeping the upstream sources packaged is > that (1) you can know what's in them, check md5sums, etc., and (2) > there's less chance of introducing hard-to-find errors by fat- > fingering a particular unpacked source file. But I'm happy to unpack, > too. > Hi, In my

[sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
The only real advantages of keeping the upstream sources packaged is that (1) you can know what's in them, check md5sums, etc., and (2) there's less chance of introducing hard-to-find errors by fat- fingering a particular unpacked source file. But I'm happy to unpack, too. On Nov 15, 2:01 pm, Maa

Re: [sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > On Nov 15, 1:02 pm, "Georg S. Weber" > wrote: >> Some people buidling >> Sage from source do *want* a libjpeg on their system to be taken into >> accont by their PIL in Sage! > > Really?  Do you have user studies or other evidence of that I c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > On Nov 15, 1:29 pm, "Georg S. Weber" > wrote: >> On 15 Nov., 18:51, Bill Janssen wrote: >> >> > It would be nice if the developer's guide talked about using sage -i >> > and sage -f to test new spkg's.  In the section about building spkg's,

[sage-devel] rename_worksheet() in main.js -- the 30 character length restriction

2011-11-15 Thread Donald Alan Morrison
The function (unpacked from main.js) below limits the title to 30 characters. Can we instead, a) Make the limit larger by default, and possibly, b) let the CSS/JS dynamically limit the size on the page horizontally by either displaying ellipsis or by wrapping the text within the div element, or c

[sage-devel] Re: talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
On Nov 15, 1:29 pm, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > On 15 Nov., 18:51, Bill Janssen wrote: > > > It would be nice if the developer's guide talked about using sage -i > > and sage -f to test new spkg's.  In the section about building spkg's, > > perhaps. > > Yes. > > Two or three sentences, maybe? Some

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
On Nov 15, 1:02 pm, "Georg S. Weber" wrote: > Some people buidling > Sage from source do *want* a libjpeg on their system to be taken into > accont by their PIL in Sage! Really? Do you have user studies or other evidence of that I could look at on that? It's surprising to me; I'd think that one

[sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Maarten Derickx
> > > Hi, > > there is another reason: > "tar" is not necessarily equal to "tar". The Sage build scripts try to > use only the most generic options, and provenly work on the supported > number of systems. If you provide some file tarred upstream, then this > might not be "out-of-the-box" read

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Why does pari need 1Gig of memory allocated?

2011-11-15 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:19 , William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Georg S. Weber > wrote: >> >> >> On 15 Nov., 18:18, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>> On 2011-11-15 18:09, Maarten Derickx wrote:> I think 102400 byte wich >>> is about 1 gigabyte is a bit to much to alloca

[sage-devel] Re: talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Nov., 18:51, Bill Janssen wrote: > It would be nice if the developer's guide talked about using sage -i > and sage -f to test new spkg's.  In the section about building spkg's, > perhaps. Yes. Two or three sentences, maybe? I think you could better formulate what you (it seems) have soug

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Why does pari need 1Gig of memory allocated?

2011-11-15 Thread Maarten Derickx
Thanks for the quick replies! So it seems that the errors are not due to sage, but due to the machine not having enough memory. This info will be very useful. For your info. The machine I installed it on was a vm I got acces to from the sys admins here, and they want to make it the new sage se

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Nov., 21:35, Bill Janssen wrote: > Georg, > > I'll fix those problems (unwanted binaries in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin/, and > linking against unintended libraries), in my new spkg. > Please be careful to not throw away "too much". Some people buidling Sage from source do *want* a libjpeg on their s

[sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Nov., 21:38, Bill Janssen wrote: > Fine with me. > > But if the src directory is allowed to be a modified version of > upstream, why not just integrate the Sage-specific patches directly > into the sources, too? > > Bill > > On Nov 15, 11:29 am, William Stein wrote: > Ease of workflow.

[sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/15/11 2:38 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: Fine with me. But if the src directory is allowed to be a modified version of upstream, why not just integrate the Sage-specific patches directly into the sources, too? For ease in updating. Most of the time, the src is just a vanilla copy of the rea

[sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Nov., 20:29, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: > > I'm a bit unclear as to why third-party source packages are unpacked > > in an spkg?  Since the patching protocol is very strict, would it make > > sense for me to include Imaging-1.1.7.tar in th

[sage-devel] Re: why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Fine with me. But if the src directory is allowed to be a modified version of upstream, why not just integrate the Sage-specific patches directly into the sources, too? Bill On Nov 15, 11:29 am, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: > > I'm a bit unclear

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Georg, I'll fix those problems (unwanted binaries in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin/, and linking against unintended libraries), in my new spkg. Little-known fact about PIL: it doesn't actually use libtiff -- the checks are in there for an experimental module which doesn't ship with the distribution. I've dec

[sage-devel] Re: integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Nov., 20:03, Bill Janssen wrote: > I'm building a new spkg for PIL 1.1.7. > > I'd like to build PIL, then run its test suite, then if that passes, > install it.  Should I just do all of that in spkg-install, or should I > run the test suite in spkg-check?  If I install it before I test it,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Why does pari need 1Gig of memory allocated?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Georg S. Weber wrote: > > > On 15 Nov., 18:18, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> On 2011-11-15 18:09, Maarten Derickx wrote:> I think 102400 byte wich is >> about 1 gigabyte is a bit to much to >> > allocate just at once. So the main question is where does this numbe

[sage-devel] Re: Why does pari need 1Gig of memory allocated?

2011-11-15 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 15 Nov., 18:18, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-11-15 18:09, Maarten Derickx wrote:> I think 102400 byte wich is > about 1 gigabyte is a bit to much to > > allocate just at once. So the main question is where does this number > > come from and why is it so huge? > > The Heegner test simp

[sage-devel] Re: RuntimeError: ECL says: THROW: The catch MACSYMA-QUIT is undefined.

2011-11-15 Thread Eviatar
Oh, I see. However, this is not made explicit in the documentation, and it does work with symbolics sometimes. For example, find_maximum_on_interval(-x^2 + 9*x, 1, 3) -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-de

Re: [sage-devel] why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: > I'm a bit unclear as to why third-party source packages are unpacked > in an spkg?  Since the patching protocol is very strict, would it make > sense for me to include Imaging-1.1.7.tar in the "src" directory of > the spkg, instead of unpacki

Re: [sage-devel] integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Bill Janssen wrote: > I'm building a new spkg for PIL 1.1.7. > > I'd like to build PIL, then run its test suite, then if that passes, > install it.  Should I just do all of that in spkg-install, or should I > run the test suite in spkg-check? You should run the t

[sage-devel] Sage Days Numbers and workshops page

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Grout
As you probably saw with the Sage Days 36 / 35.5 confusion just now, there has been some confusion about assigning numbers for Sage Days. The confusion stemmed from two different places that numbers were claimed: on the wiki home page and on the Workshops wiki page. We've cleaned that duplicat

[sage-devel] why unpack the source packages?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
I'm a bit unclear as to why third-party source packages are unpacked in an spkg? Since the patching protocol is very strict, would it make sense for me to include Imaging-1.1.7.tar in the "src" directory of the spkg, instead of unpacking it into raw files? -- To post to this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Re: example of sage-check file?

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
Here is a typical short one, from the R spkg. #!/bin/bash if [ "$SAGE_LOCAL" = "" ]; then echo "SAGE_LOCAL undefined ... exiting"; exit 1 fi cd src make check if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Error while running the R testsuite ... exiting" exit 1 fi Less typically, here is the c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days 36--Bug days near Boston after Joint Meetings in January

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Grout
On 11/15/11 10:03 AM, Jason Grout wrote: We are pleased to announce Sage Days 36: Justin W. brought to our attention that Sage Days 36 was already taken by the padic Sage Days, so we are now calling the bug days Sage Days 35.5, and the new web page is here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days35.

[sage-devel] integrating spkg-check and spkg-install?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
I'm building a new spkg for PIL 1.1.7. I'd like to build PIL, then run its test suite, then if that passes, install it. Should I just do all of that in spkg-install, or should I run the test suite in spkg-check? If I install it before I test it, that means that broken code could overwrite workin

[sage-devel] Re: example of sage-check file?

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 15, 1:46 pm, Bill Janssen wrote: > Sorry, I mean "spkg-check". > spkg-check is supposed to be run when the env variable SAGE_CHECK is set to "yes", or perhaps to something non-empty. There is ... flexibility on what different spkgs do with this. They would be in spkg files, in the to

[sage-devel] Re: example of sage-check file?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Sorry, I mean "spkg-check". Bill On Nov 15, 10:40 am, Bill Janssen wrote: > Can someone please point me to an example of a sage-check file?  I > don't see any explanation in the developer docs. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this grou

[sage-devel] example of sage-check file?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
Can someone please point me to an example of a sage-check file? I don't see any explanation in the developer docs. -- 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, vi

[sage-devel] talk about sage -i and sage -f in the developer's guide?

2011-11-15 Thread Bill Janssen
It would be nice if the developer's guide talked about using sage -i and sage -f to test new spkg's. In the section about building spkg's, perhaps. -- 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...@goog

Re: [sage-devel] Why does pari need 1Gig of memory allocated?

2011-11-15 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-11-15 18:09, Maarten Derickx wrote: > I think 102400 byte wich is about 1 gigabyte is a bit to much to > allocate just at once. So the main question is where does this number > come from and why is it so huge? The Heegner test simply needs that much memory... Normally you need between

[sage-devel] Why does pari need 1Gig of memory allocated?

2011-11-15 Thread Maarten Derickx
Dear All, Today I managed to install sage 4.7.2 from source on Suse Linux Enterprise Server (sles) 11 SP 1. Almost all doctest pass except for: The following tests failed: sage -t devel/sage/sage/sandpiles/sandpile.py # Time out sage -t devel/sage/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves

Re: [sage-devel] 90% doctest coverage thrust

2011-11-15 Thread William Stein
On 11/14/11 1:13 PM, Tom Boothby wrote: I'll doctest polynomial_compiled this week, since it's 100% my fault. Thanks. I just doctested interpolation.pyx, which uses GSL's for splines. It was very straightforward. Please review it at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12036 In

[sage-devel] indexed symbolic variables

2011-11-15 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi there, I'm trying to make sage aware of indexed variables. For the information, this is a long standing Sage-Combinat wish. more precisely, basically I need a sage object Y such that, for any object (say hashable) o: 1 - the call Y[o] returns a variable which is legal in symbolic express

Re: [sage-devel] Testing on OS X 10.7

2011-11-15 Thread John H Palmieri
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:15:39 AM UTC-8, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2011-11-15 11:06, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > To somebody with access to a OS X 10.7 machine: please test whether the > spkg > > > > > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ecl-11.1.2.cvs2007.p0.spkg

[sage-devel] Sage Days 36--Bug days near Boston after Joint Meetings in January

2011-11-15 Thread Jason Grout
We are pleased to announce Sage Days 36: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days36 to be held immediately after the Joint Mathematics Meetings, at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. This will be, like Sage Days 19 and 27, a post-Joint Math Meetings Bug Days event. We expect the primary emphasis to be fi

[sage-devel] Re: VMWare versus Virtualbox ... again

2011-11-15 Thread Emil Widmann
I created a ticket ... http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12042 I will also email H. Shilly about it -- 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 thi

[sage-devel] VMWare versus Virtualbox ... again

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
Just a note from a less than satisfied customer... From http://ask.sagemath.org/question/904/sage-on-windows-not-working?answer=1476#1476 Yes, when I had trouble installing this several months ago and wasted a bunch of my time because I tried to use VMWare, I suggested that the documentation be c

[sage-devel] Re: Any updates on Python 2.7

2011-11-15 Thread kcrisman
On Nov 15, 7:30 am, Rita Morgan wrote: > Hello, > > Just curious what the status of Python 2.7.x is with SAGE. See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9958 for the latest info. - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this gr

[sage-devel] Any updates on Python 2.7

2011-11-15 Thread Rita Morgan
Hello, Just curious what the status of Python 2.7.x is with SAGE. -- 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/

Re: [sage-devel] Testing on OS X 10.7

2011-11-15 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-11-15 11:06, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > To somebody with access to a OS X 10.7 machine: please test whether the spkg > > http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ecl-11.1.2.cvs2007.p0.spkg Also please test http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ecl-11.1.2.cvs2011

[sage-devel] Testing on OS X 10.7

2011-11-15 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
To somebody with access to a OS X 10.7 machine: please test whether the spkg http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/jdemeyer/spkg/ecl-11.1.2.cvs2007.p0.spkg compiles properly (see #11884). -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,

Re: [sage-devel] /usr/local/bin/sage on boxen, sage...

2011-11-15 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2011-11-13 08:15, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:10 PM, William Stein wrote: >> I'll look into it. >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> It's still 4.7. > > I can't easily upgrade because of the bug that makes upgrading > completely broken these day

[sage-devel] Re: Feature or bug in finite fields?

2011-11-15 Thread luisfe
On Nov 14, 6:11 pm, William Stein wrote: > On 11/14/11 8:44 AM, David Roe wrote: > > > > > I think I'd describe it as a feature to reduce the number of GF(7)s > > floating around. There's no coercion from ZZ[x] to GF(p), regardless > > of the choice of modulus. The modulus function on > > Fini

Re: [sage-devel] coerce(ComplexNumber, 1+I) segfaults

2011-11-15 Thread David Roe
This is now #12038, which has a patch which eliminates the segfault. The problem was that you shouldn't be using coerce like that: the first argument should be a parent, not the element class. That element class requires two inputs: both the parent and the data to make a new element out of. In t