Re: [sage-devel] Ubuntu 12.04: Sage fails to install from PPA - Error installing package gap_packages-4.4.12.p

2012-11-21 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi Johannes, I suggest removing sagemath-optional, with this command sudo apt-get purge sagemath-optional Regards, Jan On 21 November 2012 18:32, Johannes wrote: > Hi > > Am Mo 19 Nov 2012 04:47:19 CET schrieb Jan Groenewald: > > > dpkg-reconfigure sagemath-optional > that does not work: > /u

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days in Bobo-Dioulasso debriefing; Sage in developping countries

2012-11-21 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:07:50AM -0800, tom d wrote: >Thanks for running this, Nicolas, and providing the detailed report! Well, for the running all the kudos should really go to the organizers. And all those who helped for the Sage sessions. All I had to do was to teach Sage to *motivated*

[sage-devel] Re: Error installing package lapack-20071123.p2

2012-11-21 Thread Amar Shah
Hi Andrea, Francois, and Jeroen. Thanks for the advice. It was really helpful. I corrected LD_LIBRARY_PATH and reinstalled gfortran. Resumed compiling. Ran into another error, but I used a 'workaround' from here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/sage-support/UJ9bz5PX-D0 I

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage testing

2012-11-21 Thread Jernej Azarija
That is very neat! Thanks for the info guys! On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 18:12:27 UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 11/21/2012 11:34 AM, P Purkayastha wrote: > > > > The policy is to add examples and tests within your documentation. Look > > up the source code of some function like > >

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-5.4 virtual appliance

2012-11-21 Thread Volker Braun
All passwords default to "sage" On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 5:25:40 PM UTC, mmarco wrote: > > Which is the admin password? > > And what happened with the idea of making a windows gui to handle the > VM? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread Nils Bruin
On Nov 21, 5:15 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > hmm, I don't think this example will fly. If you happen to have a > divisior of p in the denominator then you get a point with every > nonzero coordinate divisible by p. So the reduction of it is > (0:0..:0) -- oeps --- a runtime error sowieso... Not qu

[sage-devel] Re: Sage-5.4 virtual appliance

2012-11-21 Thread mmarco
Which is the admin password? And what happened with the idea of making a windows gui to handle the VM? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this grou

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage testing

2012-11-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/21/2012 11:34 AM, P Purkayastha wrote: > > The policy is to add examples and tests within your documentation. Look > up the source code of some function like > > QQ?? > > plot?? > > integrate?? > > and so on. You will find both examples and tests listed there. And one thing that's easy

Re: [sage-devel] Sage testing

2012-11-21 Thread Johannes
Hey Jernej, take a look here: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/walk_through.html#reviewing-a-patch greatz Johannes On 21.11.2012 17:20, Jernej Azarija wrote: > Hello! > > I was wondering how is testing of Sage currently performed. > > What I was wondering is if there is a policy that for e

[sage-devel] Re: Sage testing

2012-11-21 Thread P Purkayastha
On 11/22/2012 12:20 AM, Jernej Azarija wrote: Hello! I was wondering how is testing of Sage currently performed. What I was wondering is if there is a policy that for every new addition to sage there is also a suitable test case that is prepared to test the specific addition. For example if I

[sage-devel] Re: Sage testing

2012-11-21 Thread Volker Braun
A good starting point would be the Sage documentation about how to use the doctests: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sage+doctest On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 4:20:42 PM UTC, Jernej Azarija wrote: > > Hello! > > I was wondering how is testing of Sage currently performed. > > What I was wondering is i

Re: [sage-devel] Ubuntu 12.04: Sage fails to install from PPA - Error installing package gap_packages-4.4.12.p

2012-11-21 Thread Johannes
Hi Am Mo 19 Nov 2012 04:47:19 CET schrieb Jan Groenewald: > dpkg-reconfigure sagemath-optional that does not work: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: sagemath-optional ist kaputt oder nicht komplett installiert (package is defect or not completely installed) if I try dpkg-reconfigure --force sagemath-o

[sage-devel] Sage testing

2012-11-21 Thread Jernej Azarija
Hello! I was wondering how is testing of Sage currently performed. What I was wondering is if there is a policy that for every new addition to sage there is also a suitable test case that is prepared to test the specific addition. For example if I add the function foo() to the graph class is

Re: [sage-devel] Sage-5.4 virtual appliance

2012-11-21 Thread Volker Braun
The current thread on the Sage-5.4 VM is here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-release/V69RDMFLyIo/discussion On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:20:24 AM UTC-5, Andrea Lazzarotto wrote: > > Does it mean Firefox is slower with that? What about e.g. Midori? AFAIK it >> uses Webkit too. >>

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2012-11-21, P Purkayastha wrote: > On 11/21/2012 10:53 PM, Simon King wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> On 2012-11-21, P Purkayastha wrote: >>> In fact, the behavior in Sage is *inconsistent*, and I think in this >>> particular case, the inconsistency should get priority of getting fixed >>> over trying

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2012-11-21, Simon King wrote: > Hi all! > > On 2012-11-21, P Purkayastha wrote: >> In fact, the behavior in Sage is *inconsistent*, and I think in this >> particular case, the inconsistency should get priority of getting fixed >> over trying to enforce rigor.: > > I wouldn't think it is a fi

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread P Purkayastha
On 11/21/2012 10:53 PM, Simon King wrote: Hi all! On 2012-11-21, P Purkayastha wrote: In fact, the behavior in Sage is *inconsistent*, and I think in this particular case, the inconsistency should get priority of getting fixed over trying to enforce rigor.: I wouldn't think it is a fix, *unl

Re: [sage-devel] Sage-5.4 virtual appliance

2012-11-21 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
2012/11/21 Volker Braun > I've just posted a new VM. As I wrote in the other thread, the new VM > doesn't isolate the gui user from the Sage server any more so automatic > login works inside the VM. > Sorry, I don't understand "the other thread" you are referring to. Is it in this mailing list o

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread Simon King
Hi all! On 2012-11-21, P Purkayastha wrote: > In fact, the behavior in Sage is *inconsistent*, and I think in this > particular case, the inconsistency should get priority of getting fixed > over trying to enforce rigor.: I wouldn't think it is a fix, *unless* it is done in a rigorous way. Wh

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread P Purkayastha
On 11/19/2012 02:06 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: On Nov 18, 9:22 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: How different is "rational number"*"finite field element" from division, which is also a partial operation? (Well, I admit I don't know Sage's coersion model at all...) Robert is probably more qualified to ex

Re: [sage-devel] Sage-5.4 virtual appliance

2012-11-21 Thread Volker Braun
I've just posted a new VM. As I wrote in the other thread, the new VM doesn't isolate the gui user from the Sage server any more so automatic login works inside the VM. It does not and currently can not work if you use the host OS web browser. Chromium isn't in Fedora at this point so it was ju

Re: [sage-devel] Sage-5.4 virtual appliance

2012-11-21 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
2012/11/13 Volker Braun > I don't have the bandwidth right now to try it myself, but the VM build > script ran fine. The adventurous can find the virtual machine image here: > For me it's broken. Basically, if I run it I see it loops a lot and the GUI doesn't start. But if I switch to a tty I ca

[sage-devel] Re: Error building in mandriva.

2012-11-21 Thread Eric Gourgoulhon
Hi, I had the same problem with Sage 5.4 on Mandriva 2010.1. As explained in the post https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/7BpVcXiN9Cg/discussion, the problem arises from the function "time". A workaround is to edit the file $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/bin/sage and to suppress the "time" command

[sage-devel] Re: Combining finite/rational fields

2012-11-21 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On 2012-11-19, Nils Bruin wrote: > On Nov 19, 6:22 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> Perhaps the coersion system itself might be a bit confused, but >> it looks like here we talk rigour for the sake of rigour, without >> any benefits. > > One benefit is error detection and picking proper normalizati