Re: [sage-devel] Re: How can an spkg extend the interactive Sage environment?

2013-09-30 Thread Felix Salfelder
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 03:51:15PM -0700, Bill Janssen wrote: > > However, I've also got to make sure that the environment variable > > JMODELICA_HOME is set. Is there some way for an spkg to hook into sage-env > > and extend it? > Hello? Anyone? that's pretty easy to do. actually, unhardwiri

[sage-devel] Re: motivation: here's one reason your contributions to Sage matter...

2013-09-30 Thread Keshav Kini
rjf writes: > On Sunday, September 29, 2013 9:53:07 AM UTC-7, Keshav Kini wrote: > > > > Could you elaborate on what relevance you see Sage having to > truth > maintenance and theorem proving? > > > Typically the people who work in these areas feel that they have a > great

[sage-devel] Re: motivation: here's one reason your contributions to Sage matter...

2013-09-30 Thread rjf
On Sunday, September 29, 2013 9:53:07 AM UTC-7, Keshav Kini wrote: > > > > Could you elaborate on what relevance you see Sage having to truth > maintenance and theorem proving? > > Typically the people who work in these areas feel that they have a great deal to offer to mathematicians. See th

[sage-devel] Re: motivation: here's one reason your contributions to Sage matter...

2013-09-30 Thread rjf
On Monday, September 30, 2013 5:13:12 AM UTC-7, kcrisman wrote: > > > Hi - I didn't see these responses, my RSS only updates now if there's a > new *thread*, very annoying... > > There are several models for rationales for gatherings. It might pay to >> distinguish among them. >> > > Exactly.

[sage-devel] Re: How can an spkg extend the interactive Sage environment?

2013-09-30 Thread Bill Janssen
Hello? Anyone? On Monday, September 23, 2013 2:29:00 PM UTC-7, Bill Janssen wrote: > > I'm building JModelica for Sage. It installs into its own little private > directory (I'm using ${SAGE_LOCAL}/JModelica-1.11), including its Python > code. When I fire up the interactive Sage prompt, I'd li

[sage-devel] Re: motivation: here's one reason your contributions to Sage matter...

2013-09-30 Thread Nils Bruin
On Monday, September 30, 2013 12:26:51 PM UTC-7, telugujoshi wrote: > > Just thought of a name for Sage user group - uSage. > Nice play on words. Also the similarity to "U-pick" orchards seems an appropriate allusion to what using sage in the less polished areas often feels like. Perhaps for th

[sage-devel] Re: motivation: here's one reason your contributions to Sage matter...

2013-09-30 Thread telugujoshi
On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:29:19 PM UTC-5, Harald Schilly wrote: > > On Friday, September 27, 2013 7:30:23 PM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote: >> >> Thoughts? >> > > There exists this model of "user groups" with regular meetings. "Hello, > I'm addicted to Sage for 1 1/2 years. Please help me with my

[sage-devel] Re: We need a new color?

2013-09-30 Thread Jason Grout
On 9/30/13 1:26 AM, Maarten Derickx wrote: Speaking of xkcd and easter eggs, I have always thought that since sage already has an xgcd function, we should also have an xkcd function. I already wrote a first version at: https://sage.math.leidenuniv.nl/home/pub/22/ Also, don't forget about matpl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: We need a new color?

2013-09-30 Thread Nils Bruin
On Monday, September 30, 2013 11:08:02 AM UTC-7, Tom wrote: > > > For the more pragmatic, you can fairly accurately predict when that > url will come live, and just sleep 'til then. > > That's not very robust in the face of future changes. Randomized retry with exponential backoff (perhaps cappe

Re: [sage-devel] Re: We need a new color?

2013-09-30 Thread Tom Boothby
raise RuntimeError,"Could not obtain comic data from %s . Maybe you should enable time travel!"%url You gave up on this too early, IMO. I'd "from __future__ import *" and then try the url again. For the more pragmatic, you can fairly accurately predict when that url will come live, and just slee

Re: [sage-devel] Re: We need a new color?

2013-09-30 Thread Benjamin Jones
I will give that a positive review :) -- Benjamin Jones On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Maarten Derickx < m.derickx.stud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking of xkcd and easter eggs, I have always thought that since sage > already has an xgcd function, we should also have an xkcd function. I > alr

[sage-devel] Re: motivation: here's one reason your contributions to Sage matter...

2013-09-30 Thread kcrisman
Hi - I didn't see these responses, my RSS only updates now if there's a new *thread*, very annoying... There are several models for rationales for gatherings. It might pay to > distinguish among them. > Exactly. I have no problem with the idea of Sage user groups - the local R user group is

[sage-devel] Re: Docbuild issues are hard to see and understand

2013-09-30 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
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[sage-devel] Re: Docbuild issues are hard to see and understand

2013-09-30 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
Will do! On Monday, 30 September 2013 10:43:57 UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: > > I agree that the current state is bad. Also, the sphinx error frequently > points you at the docstring of the wrong class/method in the file so you > need to hunt through the whole file content to find where it hurts.

[sage-devel] Re: Docbuild issues are hard to see and understand

2013-09-30 Thread Volker Braun
I agree that the current state is bad. Also, the sphinx error frequently points you at the docstring of the wrong class/method in the file so you need to hunt through the whole file content to find where it hurts. We should definitely improve on that. Can somebody open at ticket? On Monday, S

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Inverse of discrete functions

2013-09-30 Thread Nathann Cohen
> This has been brought up on the Python mailinglists before. Really you want a > database where two or more columns are indexed. If anybody wants to work on > that please read the previous Python discussions first. Here is one possible > implementation: > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/5

[sage-devel] Re: Docbuild issues are hard to see and understand

2013-09-30 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
Hi Travis, On Sunday, 29 September 2013 20:12:48 UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > In care you are unaware, I would recommend doing a more narrow docbuild > with "reference/subsection" where subsection is for example combinat or > algebras. Also on the next time you're rebuilding the doc, it sho