[sage-devel] Posets and lattices, location of functions

2014-10-09 Thread Jori Mantysalo
I have made some additions to posets and lattices, for example http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17121 But I am confused about logic (if any...) behind location of functions on different places. For example is_bounded := has_top & has_bottom and all three functions are defined on hasse_diagram

[sage-devel] Re: Request to extend binomial(n,k) to negative integers

2014-10-09 Thread Peter Luschny
> > do you know how to open a trac ticket? As you say, this extension can > easily be done and thus does probably not require a poll on sage-devel. > It is now http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17123#ticket -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-de

[sage-devel] Re: Request to extend binomial(n,k) to negative integers

2014-10-09 Thread Peter Luschny
> > do you know how to open a trac ticket? As you say, this extension can > easily be done and thus does probably not require a poll on sage-devel. > No, but I will try to learn it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscr

[sage-devel] Re: spkg-src scripts

2014-10-09 Thread Volker Braun
IMHO that should be the aim, but we shouldn't try to enforce it. Really they are bandaids for cases where upstream does something unreasonable. I see the spkg-src script more as documentation (its the log of commands needed on the current tarball) than something that can be run unattended on ev

[sage-devel] Re: Request to extend binomial(n,k) to negative integers

2014-10-09 Thread Simon King
Hi Peter, do you know how to open a trac ticket? As you say, this extension can easily be done and thus does probably not require a poll on sage-devel. Best regards, Simon On 2014-10-09, Peter Luschny wrote: > --=_Part_1724_1802019516.1412847516854 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Re: [sage-devel] spkg-src scripts

2014-10-09 Thread Francois Bissey
In the case of ntl, which probably prompted your email, I was indeed disappointed that I didn't have a tar ball ready to upload as a result. +1 for putting common bits in a central location, that would include * fetching * unpacking * packaging the end product At least. François On 9/10/2014, a

[sage-devel] spkg-src scripts

2014-10-09 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
I have noticed that, for most of the spkg-src scripts, it is not documented at all *how* they should be used. Also the developer documentation at http://www.sagemath.org/doc/developer/packaging.html#modified-tarballs doesn't say what exactly such a script should do. This is because these are mo

[sage-devel] Request to extend binomial(n,k) to negative integers

2014-10-09 Thread Peter Luschny
A simple and coherent extension of the binomial function to negative integers n, k was outlined by M. J. Kronenburg in The Binomial Coefficient for Negative Arguments, http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3689 This extension amounts to define def BINOMIAL(n, k): if n >= 0 and k >= 0: return b