Re: [sage-devel] Dropping support for old-style .spkgs?

2018-08-08 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 08/08/2018 20:12, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:19:13 UTC-6, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: IMO, it would be good to have here a current list of old-style spkgs so we can be explicit about what things we are dropping support for. And can we please not omit "huge" packa

Re: [sage-devel] Dropping support for old-style .spkgs?

2018-08-08 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
On Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:19:13 UTC-6, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > IMO, it would be good to have here a current list of old-style spkgs so we > can be explicit about what things we are dropping support for. > And can we please not omit "huge" packages like polytopes_db_4d-1.0.spkg - I do us

Re: [sage-devel] Dropping support for old-style .spkgs?

2018-08-08 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
IMO, it would be good to have here a current list of old-style spkgs so we can be explicit about what things we are dropping support for. Best, Travis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

Re: [sage-devel] Dropping support for old-style .spkgs?

2018-08-08 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2018-08-08 19:06, Erik Bray wrote: That seems like long enough to me to rip out all support for them. I'd especially like to do this since I feel increasingly compelled to rewrite most or all of the sage-spkg script in Python, and it will greatly simplify matters to not have to maintain that s

[sage-devel] Real Transcendental Extension Fields

2018-08-08 Thread Pat Hooper
Hi all, I think Sage should support real transcendental extension fields. It does not as far as I can tell. For example it should support arithmetic and comparisons in Q(e) with e the usual constant e and in Q(r) where r is chosen at random in some interval with respect to Lebesgue measure. Ide

Re: [sage-devel] Dropping support for old-style .spkgs?

2018-08-08 Thread David Roe
Sage 6.9 was released in October 2015. Dropping support for old-style spkgs seems reasonable to me. David On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:06 PM Erik Bray wrote: > We still have quite a bit of code around for supporting old-style > packages in .spkg archives, though it is not well tested anymore and >

[sage-devel] Dropping support for old-style .spkgs?

2018-08-08 Thread Erik Bray
We still have quite a bit of code around for supporting old-style packages in .spkg archives, though it is not well tested anymore and I'm not even 100% sure installing these still works. We have also noted, since Sage 6.9, that these are deprecated and unsupported. That seems like long enough to

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Installation

2018-08-08 Thread Sachi Hashimoto
Right, sorry, I've been a bit busy and forgot to wrap this thread up--I did end up deleting everything and rebuilding in a different directory, and that seemed to solve my problems. Thanks everyone. S On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:06 PM Sachi Hashim

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Installation

2018-08-08 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:06 PM Sachi Hashimoto wrote: > > It's Sage 8.2 and it's from a tarball. I'm building it from scratch--I just > got a new computer. After extracting the tar file, and changing into the > sage-8.2 directory in my applications folder, I ran 'make'. Before that, I > tried t