Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Saturday, 17 March 2012 08:23:47 UTC+8, Volker Braun wrote: > > I see the arm port as complimentary to the sage app. At one point we'll > probably want to have an optional server that you can run on your device, > and fall back to sagemath.org otherwise. But the scope of the GSoC > project

[sage-devel] Re: Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Harald, this is great news! On Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:41:08 UTC+8, Harald Schilly wrote: > > Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC > project. > > This means, there will a couple of new students who pop up here and start > asking about various projects and

[sage-devel] Re: regarding project

2012-03-16 Thread vishu goyal
On Mar 17, 1:44 am, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, vishu goyal wrote: > > hello sir, > > I am an first year cse student and know much of basic and egg level > > maths.  Am A eligible for ur project. > > Could you please clarify what "egg level maths" is?  I'm not famili

Re: [sage-devel] Physical constants

2012-03-16 Thread Eviatar
Thank you, that's what I thought. I'll do it outside of GSoC anyway though. -- 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.c

Re: [sage-devel] Physical constants

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I think having physical constants would be great (probably as attributes of another object, to avoid cluttering the namespace too much), but there doesn't seem to be near enough meat here for a full GSoC project. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Eviatar wrote: > Hello, > > I was thinking about do

[sage-devel] Physical constants

2012-03-16 Thread Eviatar
Hello, I was thinking about doing a GSoC project this summer. I don't think I would need too much mentoring since I have already written several patches for Sage. My idea was to implement physical constants, much like http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/PhysicalConstants/tutorial/PhysicalC

[sage-devel] Re: Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread kcrisman
On Mar 16, 5:41 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC > project. > Wonderful! Great, great job on putting the proposal together to all of you. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe fr

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Volker Braun
I see the arm port as complimentary to the sage app. At one point we'll probably want to have an optional server that you can run on your device, and fall back to sagemath.org otherwise. But the scope of the GSoC project is to develop the Sage UI, not to port the Sage server. A full arm port is

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Harald Schilly
On Friday, March 16, 2012 11:10:44 PM UTC+1, Christopher Swenson wrote: > > … so we wouldn't have a full port of Sage on the device at all. > > yes, and i also think, that this won't have so much benefit at all (additionally to the ARM vs. x86 architecture problems). I think, a focus on a good

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Christopher Swenson
Oh, my bad. It looks like we intended what you said -- so we wouldn't have a full port of Sage on the device at all. --Christopher On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 15:08, Jason Grout wrote: > On 3/16/12 4:57 PM, Christopher Swenson wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I have a little bit of Android and Sage experience

[sage-devel] Re: sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 3/16/12 4:57 PM, Christopher Swenson wrote: Hi! I have a little bit of Android and Sage experience, so I thought I would give you a tip or two to get started. I would imagine that the mentors of this project saw this as roughly four phases: 1. Get up to speed on Android development. This me

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
Excellent news! I second Harald's call that quality is better than quantity when it comes to both students and projects. Requiring potential students to have at least one non-trivial (well written) submission before selection is a great way of measuring this. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Haral

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Christopher Swenson
Congrats on getting picked this year! --Christopher On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 14:56, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 22:49, David Roe wrote: > > People may have been discouraged by our repeated failure to be selected > in > > previous years. > > yes, i think our goal should be to

Re: [sage-devel] sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Christopher Swenson
Hi! I have a little bit of Android and Sage experience, so I thought I would give you a tip or two to get started. I would imagine that the mentors of this project saw this as roughly four phases: 1. Get up to speed on Android development. This mean download and installing the SDK (see http://de

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Harald Schilly
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 22:49, David Roe wrote: > People may have been discouraged by our repeated failure to be selected in > previous years. yes, i think our goal should be to have just a few - but very promising - projects for the summer. then we can build on that for the next year. but it's s

Re: [sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread David Roe
Fantastic! I hope that more people will submit ideas. People may have been discouraged by our repeated failure to be selected in previous years. And well done Harald. David On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 17:41, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the

[sage-devel] Sage goes GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi everyone. Sage got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC project. This means, there will a couple of new students who pop up here and start asking about various projects and other issues regarding Sage. We have never been accepted to GSoC before, so we also have to find a way to

[sage-devel] sage.math.washington.edu

2012-03-16 Thread William Stein
Hi, I resuscitated sage.math.washington.edu. Everything is thus back now, except that the /scratch disk on sage.math is broken, which is an unrelated problem. I've thus set /scratch on sage.math to be exactly the same (NFS mounted) /scratch as we have on geom and mod. It's the same speed as /

[sage-devel] sage android project

2012-03-16 Thread Jeh Agarwal
Hello, I am a B.Tech 3rd year student doing Computer Science and Engineering. I am interested in working for sage -android as my GSoC project. The idea of an interactive pocket mathematical tool is really cool. It is true that people require some handy mathematical tool and what better place th

Re: [sage-devel] regarding project

2012-03-16 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, vishu goyal wrote: > hello sir, > I am an first year cse student and know much of basic and egg level > maths. Am A eligible for ur project. Could you please clarify what "egg level maths" is? I'm not familiar with it. -- William > > -- > To post to this grou

[sage-devel] regarding project

2012-03-16 Thread vishu goyal
hello sir, I am an first year cse student and know much of basic and egg level maths .Am A eligible for ur project. -- 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] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Keshav Kini
William Stein writes: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: >> "R. Andrew Ohana" writes: >>> This makes it obvious that I'm against having later versions of sage >>> be based upon previous versions, however, I am completely for later >>> versions of sage having all of the commits

[sage-devel] Re: implicit_plot option 'fill' is broken

2012-03-16 Thread Jason Grout
On 3/16/12 12:20 PM, Niles Johnson wrote: Hello all, I just noticed that the 'fill' option of implicit_plot is broken. The following example, from the reference manual [1], returns a plot which is entirely blue, rather than just filling the circle as the documentation claims. sage:x,y = va

[sage-devel] implicit_plot option 'fill' is broken

2012-03-16 Thread Niles Johnson
Hello all, I just noticed that the 'fill' option of implicit_plot is broken. The following example, from the reference manual [1], returns a plot which is entirely blue, rather than just filling the circle as the documentation claims. sage: x,y = var('x,y')sage: f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 - 2sage: i

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: > Robert Bradshaw writes: >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> On Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:55:31 UTC+8, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: Okay, I'll think about your suggestion and changing the merger procedure.  

[sage-devel] lazy import cache

2012-03-16 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi, I'm currently reviewing John Palmieri's ticket: #12670: Store lazy import caches in .sage/cache/ rather than in .sage The (not so critical) problem solved here is that the cache for lazy import is currently stored in .sage which is polluted by lots of files (one for each sage-version

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread R. Andrew Ohana
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:03, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le vendredi 16 mars, Keshav Kini a écrit: > > If a later version contains everything gone in a previous version... > then how is it not based on it? In the sense that you state: that a release is just a tag on the master branch. Or in other wor

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Le vendredi 16 mars, Keshav Kini a écrit: > "R. Andrew Ohana" writes: > > This makes it obvious that I'm against having later versions of sage > > be based upon previous versions, however, I am completely for later > > versions of sage having all of the commits of earlier versions of > > sage (as

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Keshav Kini wrote: > "R. Andrew Ohana" writes: >> This makes it obvious that I'm against having later versions of sage >> be based upon previous versions, however, I am completely for later >> versions of sage having all of the commits of earlier versions of sage

[sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Keshav Kini
"R. Andrew Ohana" writes: > This makes it obvious that I'm against having later versions of sage > be based upon previous versions, however, I am completely for later > versions of sage having all of the commits of earlier versions of sage > (as well as all relative order maintained). Just to be

[sage-devel] Re: Question about Sage

2012-03-16 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Tim Kroeger <> wrote: > Dear Mr. Stein, > > I appreciate the Sage software project and would like to use it in my > lectures for some demonstration purposes.  However, I would like to easily > enable interested students to re-run the shown examples on their home > c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread R. Andrew Ohana
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:00, Julien Puydt wrote: >> beta branch: these would be introduced when the release manager has >> decided to cut off new features from the next release. these would be >> heavily tested across many platforms until it was determined stable >> enough for release, at which

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread R. Andrew Ohana
> Why make a difference between "beta branch" and "master branch"?  I > don't really see how they could differ in practice. For the same reason you started releasing 5.0 prealphas while finishing up 4.8. It makes sense to continue working on closing various fixes + improvements/features, but you s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Le vendredi 16 mars, R. Andrew Ohana a écrit: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:59, Julien Puydt > wrote: > > Notice that in (1), rel1 might be what is called a "devel release" ; > > while in (2), that will just be a "stable release" : what is the > > point of having "devel releases" when your living t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-03-16 13:50, R. Andrew Ohana wrote: > master branch: this is where developers should pull from the vast > majority of the time > > beta branch: these would be introduced when the release manager has > decided to cut off new features from the next release. these would be > heavily tested ac

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread R. Andrew Ohana
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 17:59, Julien Puydt wrote: > Notice that in (1), rel1 might be what is called a "devel release" ; > while in (2), that will just be a "stable release" : what is the point > of having "devel releases" when your living tree is available for all > to base their work on? I agr

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-03-16 13:32, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le vendredi 16 mars, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit: >> On 2012-03-16 01:59, Julien Puydt wrote: >>> your living tree >> which means what? > > It's live vs record. > > Developers see where you are directly. You review a patch on trac, you > say: "Ok, it's in!" a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Le vendredi 16 mars, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit: > On 2012-03-16 01:59, Julien Puydt wrote: > > your living tree > which means what? It's live vs record. Developers see where you are directly. You review a patch on trac, you say: "Ok, it's in!" and indeed, it's there. No need to wait for the next sna

[sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Georg S. Weber
On 16 Mrz., 01:52, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Should we invite Linus to do a demo release for us (unless Jeroen objects)? > /me *hides* Greg KH has some nice series in his blog about certain kinds of requests, see http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/maintainer-06.html -- To post to this group, sen

[sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] Fwd: Re: Upgrading the optional GMP spkg

2012-03-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: > On 2012-03-16 01:49, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> GAP 4.5 is still unreleased, although coming close to being released; I can >> get you a snapshot. >> Send me an email then (I can't put an URL in the open here). > Why not, it's not a secret: > > ftp

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Adding GCC and MPC as standard packages

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-03-16 09:45, Simon King wrote: > The question is: Is a missing fortran compiler a good reason to build > all of GCC? In fact, yes. Because building "just" a Fortran compiler implies that most of GCC must be built anyway. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [mpir-devel] Fwd: Re: Upgrading the optional GMP spkg

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-03-16 01:49, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > GAP 4.5 is still unreleased, although coming close to being released; I can > get you a snapshot. > Send me an email then (I can't put an URL in the open here). Why not, it's not a secret: ftp://ftp.gap-system.org/pub/gap/gap45/beta/ -- To post to t

[sage-devel] Re: Adding GCC and MPC as standard packages

2012-03-16 Thread Simon King
Hi Leif, On 16 Mrz., 08:51, leif wrote: > Really? Compiling GCC 4.6.3 ('make -j4') with C, C++, Fortran, Java > and LTO enabled took exactly 3 hours on my dual-core Netbook(!) (AMD > Fusion E-450), plus <4 minutes 'make install'.  (Bootstrapped with GCC > 4.4.3, '-march=native -O3 -g'.) I have j

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Docbuild options for "sage -docbuild" and "make doc"

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-03-16 09:31, leif wrote: > Something I suggested years ago ;-) and still looking forward to it... http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12647 -- 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...

[sage-devel] Re: Docbuild options for "sage -docbuild" and "make doc"

2012-03-16 Thread leif
On Mar 16, 1:29 am, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars, leif a écrit: > > > P.S.: Perhaps the opportunity to introduce yet another Sage > > environment variable; to be set in ~/.sagerc of course! > > -((10^10)!)!  because environment variables for everything is bad > practice. Like HOME, CC,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-03-16 01:59, Julien Puydt wrote: > your living tree which means what? -- 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

[sage-devel] finally twisted can be removed [was: moving sage.misc.fpickle to another python module]

2012-03-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.devel, you wrote: > Currently the installation of Sage python module (setup.py), built > when sage-***.spkg is installed, is using twisted.persisted.styles > to allow class instances to be pickled. > > Basically, a duplicate (slightly more efficient, as it is Cython)

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Docbuild options for "sage -docbuild" and "make doc"

2012-03-16 Thread Florent Hivert
> > > I volunteer for opening a ticket and implementing it: this will very > > > soon save me time! > > > > Sounds good to me. I can't figure out when it was introduced, so i don't > > know why it was introduced, either. Anyone else know? > > A quick search on sage-release reveals #10811: "by defa

[sage-devel] Re: Adding GCC and MPC as standard packages

2012-03-16 Thread leif
On Mar 16, 7:20 am, Simon King wrote: > Hi all, > > On 15 Mrz., 14:10, Simon King wrote: > > > And now the bad news: Using the above compiler flags, Sage became > > MASSIVELY slower, by factors of 2 or 3. That's why I interrupted sage - > > testall after about 54% (there was no error up to that p

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Basing new development versions of Sage on the previous development version

2012-03-16 Thread Julien Puydt
Le jeudi 15 mars, Georg S. Weber a écrit: > What I would like to point out is : (1) current situation : I base my work on rel1, and when I'm happy with it, learn that there is a rel2 which is rel1+patch1+...+patch100, with seven conflicts, and I should rebase. (2) a proper source management sys