Re: [sage-devel] Re: Python as build-time dependency

2014-01-11 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Javier López Peña wrote: > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:37:56 PM UTC, William wrote: >> >> Andrew's main argument is that there is strong interesting in writing >> a nontrivial new build system that solves our unique set of problems >> with Sage (since no existi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Python as build-time dependency

2014-01-11 Thread Javier López Peña
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:37:56 PM UTC, William wrote: > > Andrew's main argument is that there is strong interesting in writing > a nontrivial new build system that solves our unique set of problems > with Sage (since no existing build system does). > I am not qualified to discuss the

Re: [sage-devel] removing pickles for old k-Schur implementation

2014-01-11 Thread anne1 . schilling
> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/coding_basics.html#the-pickle-jarsays: > > Warning Sage’s pickle jar helps to ensure backward compatibility in sage. > Pickles should only be removed from the pickle jar after the corresponding > objects have been properly deprecated. Any proposal to remo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Python as build-time dependency

2014-01-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I would also add that even if Python and bash (or is it POSIX shell) were equally expressive, using the same language for the build system as the main library is a significant improvement from a readability/potential contributor angle. In particular shell is a particularly dangerous language to onl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: real literals and IEEE-754

2014-01-11 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Nils Bruin wrote: > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 6:26:59 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> Would it be possible to move real literals to their own parent? Arithmetic >> operations with other parents should always cast the literal to the other >> parent first, an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: real literals and IEEE-754

2014-01-11 Thread Nils Bruin
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 6:26:59 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: > Would it be possible to move real literals to their own parent? Arithmetic > operations with other parents should always cast the literal to the other > parent first, and arithmetic operations within the real literals would en

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Python as build-time dependency

2014-01-11 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Volker Braun wrote: > In practice Python is one of the non-specialist-maths parts that has a > decent build system, so building it isn't hard either way. I agree.I talked with Andrew about this and he convinced me that making Python 2.6 a build dependency is a

[sage-devel] Re: Error in doctest

2014-01-11 Thread Volker Braun
I think thats the same as this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/Ir-xAPaE0rU/ywZJrUHHF40J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-de

Re: [sage-devel] Re: real literals and IEEE-754

2014-01-11 Thread Volker Braun
On Monday, January 6, 2014 6:50:05 PM UTC-10, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > By that logic, rather than preparsing 1/2 we should force the user to > write ZZ(1) / ZZ(2). +1 It is important that the Sage REPL be easy to use with "mathematical" notation as far as possible. You should be able to inpu

[sage-devel] Error in doctest

2014-01-11 Thread P Purkayastha
I see the following error in doctesting lately, [padics ] Exception occurred: [padics ] File "pow_computer.pxd", line 6, in init sage.rings.padics.padic_base_generic_element (sage/rings/padics/padic_base_generic_element.c:5658) [padics ] ValueError: sage.rings.padics.pow_computer.PowCompu